Search Results for: The Mortality Crisis In Transition Economies

In spite of widespread expectations of improvements in living standards and health conditions, in most of the countries of the former Soviet bloc the transition

Large and sudden economic and political changes, even if potentially positive, often entail enormous social and health costs. Such transitory costs are generall

This book is the first comprehensive assessment of the mortality crisis which has affected most economies in transition but which has remained so far largely un

The mortality and health crisis burdening most Eastern European countries since 1989 is without precedent in the European peacetime history of this century. It

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