Reasons for Russia's High Adult Mortality Rate: Correlations with Health Care, the Economy and Individual Behavior
dc.contributor.author | James, Kyler Rumsey | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-08-23T16:31:53Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-08-23T16:31:53Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011-06 | |
dc.description | ix, 53 p. : ill. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Russian 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.sponsorship | Committee in charge: Caleb Southworth, Chairperson; Julie Hessler, Member | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/11508 | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | University of Oregon | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | University of Oregon theses, Russian and East European Studies Program, M.A., 2011; | |
dc.subject | East European studies | en_US |
dc.subject | Demography | en_US |
dc.subject | Sociology | en_US |
dc.subject | Alcohol | en_US |
dc.subject | Alcoholism -- Russia (Federation) | en_US |
dc.subject | Mortality -- Russia (Federation) -- Sex differences | en_US |
dc.subject | Russia (Federation) | en_US |
dc.title | Reasons for Russia's High Adult Mortality Rate: Correlations with Health Care, the Economy and Individual Behavior | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |