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

• Main Author: James, Kyler Rumsey
• Language: en_US
• Published: University of Oregon 2011
• Subjects: East European studies; Demography; Sociology; Alcohol; Alcoholism > Russia (Federation); Mortality > Russia (Federation) > Sex differences; Russia (Federation)
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11508

ix, 53 p. : ill. === 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. === Committee in charge: Caleb Southworth, Chairperson; Julie Hessler, Member