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Tables of Contents for The Mortality Crisis in Transitional Economies
Chapter/Section Title
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List of Contributors
xiii
List of Figures
xvii
List of Tables
xix
PART I. THE MORTALITY CRISIS OF THE EARLY 1990S: A HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE
The Transition Mortality Crisis: Evidence, Interpretation and Policy Responses
3
35
Giovanni Andrea Cornia
Renato Paniccia
Mortality Crises in a Historical Perspective: The European Experience
38
21
Massimo Livi Bacci
Short-term, Long-term, and Hysteresis Mortality Models: A Review
59
24
Giovanni Andrea Cornia
PART II. UNDERLYING CAUSES OF THE MORTALITY CRISES
Alcohol as a Cause of Mortality in Societies Undergoing Rapid Transition to Market Economy
83
22
Jacek Moskalewicz
Bogdan Wojtyniak
Daniel Rabczenko
Transition, Impoverishment, and Mortality: How Large an Impact?
105
22
Renato Paniccia
Psychosocial and Biological Mechanisms behind the Recent Mortality Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe
127
24
Michael Marmot
Martin Bobak
PART III. INDIVIDUAL AND PUBLIC RESPONSES
Rising Unemployment and Coping Strategies: The Case of the Novosibirsk Oblast in Russia
151
23
Natalia Tchernina
Transition, Health Production, and Medical System Effectiveness
174
30
Christopher Davis
Fighting Unemployment and Stress: Labour Market Policies in Central and Eastern Europe
204
23
Alena Nesporova
PART IV. EVIDENCE FROM SELECTED COUNTRY CASE STUDIES
The Mortality Crisis in East Germany
227
26
Regina T. Riphahn
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Population Crisis and Rising Mortality in Transitional Russia
253
27
Vladimir M. Shkolnikov
Giovanni Andrea Cornia
The Mortality Consequences of the Transition to Market Economy in Latvia, 1991-1995
280
23
Juris Krumins
Uldis Usackis
The Decline of Mortality in the Czech Republic during the Transition: A Counterfactual Case Study
303
25
Jiri Blazek
Dagmar Dzurova
Economic Restructuring and Mortality Changes in Argentina: Is There any Connection?
328
23
Felix Abdala
Rosa N. Geldstein
Sonia M. Mychaszula
When the Welfare State Works: Unemployement and Mortality in Finland
351
19
Markus Jantti
Pekka Martikainen
Tapani Valkonen
Labour Market Changes and Mental Illness in Denmark during the 1980s
370
22
Tor Eriksson
The Impact of Income Dynamics on Mortality in the United States
392
29
Peggy McDonough
Greg J. Duncan
David R. Williams
James S. House
References
421
24
Index
445