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Mortality and Causes of Death in 20th-Century Ukraine (Hardcover, 2012)
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Mortality and Causes of Death in 20th-Century Ukraine (Hardcover, 2012)
Series: Demographic Research Monographs
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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 distinguish between crisis mortality,
birth shortfall and loss through emigration. Based on a painstaking
work of reconstitution, this study is the first to provide a
detailed estimation of the hecatomb in terms of number of deaths
and life expectancy. The famine of 1933 was alone responsible for
the deaths of 2.6 million Ukrainians and reduced male and female
life expectancies to 7 and 11 years respectively. Once the crises
of the 1930s and 1940s were over, the earlier trend in health
resumed and mortality declined steadily until the 1960s. At this
point, however, a new type of crisis appeared that caused a
sustained reversal in the existing trends. Life expectancy for
women stopped increasing altogether, while that for men began a
relentless year on year regression. Notwithstanding the confusing
picture created by the fluctuations of the 1980s and 1990s, the
long-term trend is to further deterioration. To understand the
factors involved, this study analyses in detail the combined
effects of different causes of death at different ages.
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