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>

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In certain countries of the former Soviet Union, apparent mortality trends are distorted by phases of improvement or deterioration in data quality. In Moldova, the quality of infant mortality statistics improved suddenly in the 1970s, but still poses problems to this day. The change in the 1970s...

Meslé France and Vallin Jacques. ? The Population in Psychiatrie Hospitals. Changes in Morbidity or Changes in Medical Practice ? The decrease in the population in psychiatric hospitals which began after the end of the war has become more pronounced during the 1970s. The decline was greater for...

M es lé France and Vallin Jacques. - Reconstitution of Annual Mortality Tables in 19th Century France. Since the 1950's, as a result of work by Jean Bourgeois-Pichat. a series of triennial abridged tables of mortality centered on census years has become available. General trends are, therefore...