Im Zuge der Transformationskrise in den Übergangsgesellschaften Mittel- und Osteuropas haben sich tiefgreifende demographische Anpassungsprozesse vollzogen. Merkmale dieser Anpassungsprozesse sind ein Rückgang der Heiratsquote, ein Absinken der Fruchtbarkeitsrate und eine zunehmende...

The last two decades of the twentieth century recorded a slowdown in health gains and widespread increases in health inequality across and within countries. The paper explores the causes of such trends on the basis of five main mortality models. To do so, it regresses IMR/LEB on 15 determinants...

Large and sudden economic and political changes, even if potentially positive, often entail enormous social and health costs. Such transitory costs are generally underestimated or neglected by incumbent governments. The mortality crisis experienced by the former communist countries of...