van der Hoeven, E.A. (2019) Life expectancy in welfare state Finland and post-communist Estonia: a comparison. Bachelor thesis.
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Abstract
Life expectancy in Estonia and Finland have developed in different ways from the 1950s until now. Estonia had a different trajectory in the epidemiological transition than Finland. Factors explaining this difference are economical and political. The role of health care is also important in this thesis; more specifically the role of amenable mortality. Finland has developed much more steadily in terms of life expectancy as part of the Scandinavian welfare states. Where Estonia had a much more spiky trajectory, similar to other post-communist countries. Amenable mortality is and has been higher in Estonia ever since the 1970s and had a major peak in the 1990s after the fall of the Soviet Union. Estonia has been converging towards Finland in terms of life expectancy in more recent years, however.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Degree programme: | Human Geography and Planning |
| Supervisor: | Remund, A.P.P. |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Apr 2020 05:22 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Apr 2020 05:22 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/921 |
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