Houthooft, Coen (2020) Post-Soviet mortality trends in Poland and the Russian Federation. Bachelor thesis.
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Abstract
Mortality trends in countries throughout the history can be put roughly into three stages, the stage of reduced mortality due to infectious diseases, the cardiovascular revolution and the fight against aging. This thesis is focused on the second stage, the cardiovascular revolution, and takes a closer look to the mortality trends of Poland and the Russian federation in the post-Soviet era. WHO data will be used in order to make an age specific decomposition of gain in life expectancy in both countries. Before the fall of the Soviet Union the life expectancy trends of these countries were converging. When the Soviet Union fell a sharp drop in life expectancy occurred in Russia while the life expectancy of Poland kept rising and entered the cardiovascular revolution. Substantial gains in life expectancy were made due to a decrease in cardiovascular mortality in Poland. Russia eventually followed this trend and the same pattern can be observed in the period 2005-2015. Manmade diseases play an important role in both countries were alcohol and tobacco consumption used to be high leading to more cardiovascular and other diseases. Three factors can be identified in order to explain the trends of life expectancy in both countries. Institutional changes, economic changes and behavioural changes. Due positive changes in these factors, the life expectancy of Poland rose and due to negative changes the life expectancy in Russia dropped.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Degree programme: | Human Geography and Planning |
| Supervisor: | Remund, A.P.P. |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Jul 2020 07:52 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Jul 2020 09:37 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3230 |
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