Giovanni Andrea Cornia / Renato Paniccià (eds.)

The Mortality Crisis in Transitional Economies

Herausgeber: Cornia, Giovanni Andrea; Paniccià, Renato

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 to the market economy was accompanied by a sharp increase in (already high) death rates. Such an increase provoked an 'excess mortality' of some three million people over the period 1989-96 alone, an unprecedented phenomenon in peacetime. Such a crisis remains poorly explained, has generated a limited policy response in the countries concerned and international organizations, and is bound to generate important political and economic repercussions. This book is the first comprehensive assessment of the mortality crisis in transitional economies, of its causes, and of its remedies on the basis - among others - of micro data sets and quasi-panels on health trends which have never been used before. Contributions by demographers, economists, sociologists, epidemiologists, and health experts provide a rigorous analysis of the upsurge in mortality rates, with the aim of contributing to the launch of vigorous policies to tackle the crisis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 804g
• ISBN-13: 9780198297413
• ISBN-10: 0198297416
• Artikelnr.: 21852563

Inhaltsangabe

* Part I. The Mortality Crisis of the Early 1990s: A Historical and
Theoretical Perspective
* 1: Giovanni Andrea Cornia and Renato Paniccià: The transition
mortality crisis: evidence, interpretation and policy responses
* 2: Massimo Livi Bacci: Mortality crises in a historical perspective:
the European experience
* 3: Giovanni Andrea Cornia: Short-term, long-term, and hysteresis
mortality models: a review
* Part II. Underlying Causes of the Mortality Crises
* 4: Jacek Moskalewicz, Bogdan Wojtyniak, and Daniel Rabczenko: Alcohol
as a cause of mortality in societies undergoing rapid transition to
market economy
* 5: Renato Paniccià: Transition, impoverishment and mortality: how
large an impact?
* 6: Michael Marmot and Martin Bobak: Psychological and biological
mechanisms behind the recent mortality crisis in Central and Eastern
Europe
* Part III. Individual and Public Responses
* 7: Natalia Tchernina: Rising unemployment and coping strategies: the
case of the Novosibirsk oblast in Russia
* 8: Christopher Davis: Transition, health production and medical
system effectiveness
* 9: Alena Nesporova: Fighting unemployment and stress: labour market
policies in Central and Eastern Europe
* Part IV. Evidence from Selected Country Case Studies
* 10: Regina T. Riphahn and Klaus F. Zimmermann: The mortality crisis
in East Germany
* 11: Vladimir M. Shkolnikov and Giovanni Andrea Cornia: Population
crisis and rising mortality in transitional Russia
* 12: Juris Krumins and Uldis Usackis: The mortality consequences of
the transition to market economy in Latvia: 1991-95
* 13: Jiri Blazek and Dagmar Dzurova: The decline of mortality in the
Czech Republic during the transition: a counterfactual case study
* 14: Felix Abdala, Rosa N. Geldstein, and Sonia M. Mychaszula:
Economic restructuring and mortality changes in Argentina: is there
any connection?
* 15: Markus Jäntti, Pekka Martikainen, and Tapani Valkonen: When the
welfare state works: unemployment and mortality in Finland
* 16: Tor Eriksson: Labour market changes and mental illness in Denmark
during the 1980s
* 17: Peggy McDonough, Greg J. Duncan, David B. Williams, and James S.
House: The impact of income dynamics on mortality in the USA