The case of the Czech Republic

Jitka Rychtarikova
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Jitka Rychtarikova: Univerzita Karlova

Demographic Research Special Collections, 2004, vol. 2, issue 5, 105-138

Abstract: Since the collapse of the socialist system at the beginning of the 1990s, the health situation in the Czech Republic has improved more rapidly than in other CEE countries. Mortality from circulatory diseases decreased significantly at higher ages. The recent decline in mortality is likely to be attributable to technical progress in medical treatment and less affected by the change in lifestyle. While the use of cardiovascular drugs and the number of operations of invasive heart-surgery considerably improved, smoking and alcohol consumption have somewhat augmented at the same time. The recent favourable turnover has currently brought the Czech Republic a little closer to the European average.

Keywords: mortality; life style; Czech Republic; favorable mortality turnover; transition period; survival by education; medical factors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2004.S2.5

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