Mortality and Causes of Death in 20th-Century Ukraine

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Meslé, France (Συγγραφέας), Vallin, Jacques (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Σειρά: Demographic Research Monographs, A series of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research,
• Θέματα: Social sciences.; History.; Political science.; Public health.; Emigration and immigration.; Social Sciences.; Migration.; Public Health.; History, general.; Political Science.

The Ukraine faced two very different kinds of health crises during the twentieth century. First, in the 1930s and 1940s, famine, war and political upheaval caused massive population losses. Previous evaluations of overall losses have given an idea of the scale of these catastrophes but do not distin...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• General introduction
• Part one: Long-term trends in life expectancy and the consequences of major historical disasters
• Chapter 1: The crisis of the 1930s: Jacques Vallin, France Meslé, Sergei Adamets and Serhii Pyroshkov
• Chapter 2: The consequences of the second world war and the Stalinist repression: Jacques Vallin, France Meslé, Sergei Adamets and Serhii Pyroshkov
• Part two: Eighty years of trends in sex-specific and age-specific mortality
• Chapter 3 : Is mortality under-estimated?: France Mesl é, Jacques Vallin and Vladimir Shkolnikov
• Chapter 4: Eight years of sex-specific and age-specific mortality trends: France Meslé, Jacqyes Vallin and Vladimir Shkolnikov
• Chapter 5: Ukrainians and Russians in Ukraine and in Russia: Vladimir Shkolnikov
• Chapter 6: Health crises and cohort mortality: Vladimir Shkolnikov
• Part Three: Cause-specific mortality trends from 1965
• Chapter 7: Data Collection, data quality and the history of cause-of-death classification: Vladimir Shkolnikov, France Meslé and Jacques Vallin
• Chapter 8: Reconstructing series of deaths by cause with constant definitions: France Meslé and Jacques Vallin
• Chapter 9: General trends in mortality by cause: France Meslé and Jacques Vallin
• Chapter 10: Impact of major groups of causes on life expectancy trends: France Meslé, Jacques Vallin and Serhii Pyroshkov
• Chapter 11: Mortality trends by age group and detailed causes of death: France Meslé and Jacques Vallin
• Conclusion.