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