Reasons for Russia's High Adult Mortality Rate: Correlations with Health Care, the Economy and Individual Behavior

dc.contributor.authorJames, Kyler Rumsey
dc.date.accessioned2011-08-23T16:31:53Z
dc.date.available2011-08-23T16:31:53Z
dc.date.issued2011-06
dc.descriptionix, 53 p. : ill.en_US
dc.description.abstractRussian men are over two and a half times more likely to die before 60 than are Russian women. Aggregate national indicators of state policy, health care and individual behavior are examined in a time-series analysis of male and female mortality rates from 1990 to 2008. Data come from the Russian State Statistical Office (Goskomstat) and the World Bank. There is a debate in both demographic literature and that on post-Soviet transition about changes in mortality in post-socialist society. Hypotheses about the relative impact of individual behavior such as alcohol consumption, the effect of changes to the healthcare system and economic stability are studied. A goal of this study is to understand the relative contribution of each factor to gender-based inequality in mortality rates. The findings show that the different types of variables - health care, the economy and human behavior - vary in their level of significance and in effect.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipCommittee in charge: Caleb Southworth, Chairperson; Julie Hessler, Memberen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/11508
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregonen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesUniversity of Oregon theses, Russian and East European Studies Program, M.A., 2011;
dc.subjectEast European studiesen_US
dc.subjectDemographyen_US
dc.subjectSociologyen_US
dc.subjectAlcoholen_US
dc.subjectAlcoholism -- Russia (Federation)en_US
dc.subjectMortality -- Russia (Federation) -- Sex differencesen_US
dc.subjectRussia (Federation)en_US
dc.titleReasons for Russia's High Adult Mortality Rate: Correlations with Health Care, the Economy and Individual Behavioren_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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