type="main" <p>The health situation in Russia has often been characterized as a long-running crisis. From the 1960s until the beginning of the 2000s, the declining life expectancy trend was substantially interrupted only twice: once in the mid-1980s as a result of Gorbachev's anti-alcohol campaign,...</p>

We report analyses of regional trends in overall and cause-specific mortality in Belarus for the period 1990-2007. We explore the respective spatial patterns and attempt to determine the factors responsible for the regional mortality variation. The results show that inter-regional mortality...

[eng] In France, the death of an infant is usually followed by a birth in three cases out of four, while the average probability of the enlargment of the family is only 62 %. This increase of fertility seems to correspond to a certain will of « replacing » the infant who died. Superfertility...