Post-Communist Health Transitions in Central and Eastern Europe

Autor:	Jalil Safaei
Rok vydání:	2012
Předmět:	education.field_of_study Article Subject Restructuring digestive oral and skin physiology Population Population health Per capita income Development economics Economics Openness to experience education Socioeconomic status Communism Panel data
Zdroj:	Economics Research International. 2012:1-10
ISSN:	2090-2131 2090-2123
DOI:	10.1155/2012/137412
Popis:	The countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have gone through immense political and socioeconomic restructuring after the collapse of communism around 1990. Such transition has affected the lives of populations in these countries in many significant respects. A key aspect of life and wellbeing in any society is that of population health. This paper traces the transitions in population health—life expectancies and mortality rates for both males and females—in seven of the CEE countries during the two decades after the fall of communism. We estimate a series of panel data models to identify some of the common factors that would explain health transitions in these countries, while allowing for country-specific variability. Our findings indicate that the health transitions are strongly country specific. Moreover, income per capita and trade openness are statistically significant common contributors to health transitions.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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