The Recent Mortality Decline in Russia

Beginning of the Cardiovascular Revolution

Bibliographic Data

ID4120890
AuthorsPavel Grigoriev (0000-0003-1419-9885, Research Scientist Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research Rostock Germany), France Meslé (0000-0001-6202-8955, Senior Researcher Institut national d'études démographiques Paris), Vladimir M Shkolnikov (0000-0003-2259-5423, Head, Laboratory of Demographic Data, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany; and Director, Center for Demographic Research, New Economic School, Moscow.), Evgeny M Andreev (0000-0002-1233-437X, New Economic School), Evgeny Andreev (Senior Researcher New Economic School Moscow), Agnieszka Fihel (0000-0002-8747-1299, Research Fellow University of Warsaw Poland), Markéta Pechholdová (Research Fellow University of Economics, Prague and Institut national d'études démographiques Paris), Jacques Vallin (0009-0002-3383-9868, Emeritus Research Fellow Institut national d'études démographiques Paris)
Year2014
Volume40
Issue1
Pages107-129
Publication date2014-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePopulation and Development Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0098-7921 • E-ISSN: 1728-4457
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1728-4457.2014.00652.x
OpenAlexW1966773946
LanguageEN
Citations received41
References cited41

The health situation in Russia has often been characterized as a long-running crisis. From the 1960s until the beginning of the 2000s, the declining life expectancy trend was substantially interrupted only twice: once in the mid-1980s as a result of Gorbachev's anti-alcohol campaign, and again at the end of the 1990s as a result of the "rebound" effect following the dramatic rise in mortality associated with the acute socioeconomic crisis. In both cases, the progress made proved to be short-lived. A third mortality decline in Russia began in 2003 and is still ongoing. We investigate the components and driving forces of this new development, in particular the role played by cardiovascular diseases. Using cause-specific mortality data, we identify the main features of the recent improvements and compare these features with those observed in selected European countries, specifically France, Poland, and Estonia. Our aim is to gauge whether the features of the improvements in these countries are similar to those of the recent advancements made in Russia. Although the recent improvements in Russia have features in common with initial stages of prior mortality declines in other countries and may support optimism about the future, a return to mortality stagnation cannot be ruled out

Demographic economics · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Life expectancy · Mortality rate · Political science · Population · Sociology · Demography · Global Health Care Issues · Health disparities and outcomes · Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management · Medicine

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