Crisis in Mortality, Health and Nutrition (Russian version)

Innocenti Research Centre. MONEE project Unicef

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Abstract: After the collapse of the communist system in 1989, most Eastern European countries experienced a mortality and health crisis. However, this did not hit the traditionally most vulnerable groups - children, adolescents, women and the elderly - but male adults in the 20-59 age group. The Report indicates that the surge is largely dependent on three transition-related factors: widespread impoverishment, erosion of preventive health services, sanitary and medical services and social stress. Although infants, children and young adolescents have not been greatly or directly affected by the mortality crisis, the Report points out that their situation has been severely threatened by more frequent sickness and greater nutritional imbalances, while the upturn in adult deaths is leading to a considerably heightened risk of poverty, abandonment or orphanhood.

Keywords: child health; child mortality; child nutrition; economic transition; social services; vulnerable groups; Baltic States; Central Europe; Russia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: P27 P36 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 120
Date: 1994
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