caa a22 4500 397577494 CHVBK 20180308164859.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199609 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubmed.a024514 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubmed.a024514 Changing life expectancy in central Europe: is there a Single reason? [Elektronische Daten] [Laurent Chenet, Martin McKee, Naomi Fulop, Ferenc Bojan, Helmut Brand, Angela Hort, Pawel Kalbarczyk] Background During the 1980s, at a time that life expectancy at birth in western Europe has increased by 2.5 years, it has stagnated or, for some groups, declined in the former socialist countries of central and eastern Europe. Methods A study was carried out to ascertain the contribution of deaths at different age groups and from different causes to changes in life expectancy at birth in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland between 1979 and 1990. Results Improvements in infant mortality have been counteracted by deteriorating death rates among young and middle-aged people, with the deterioration commencing as young as late childhood in Hungary but in the thirties or forties in Czechoslovakia and Poland. The leading contributors to this deterioration are cancer and circulatory disease but, in Hungary, cirrhosis and accidents have also been of great importance. Conclusions The patterns observed in each country differ in the age groups affected and the causes of death. Further work is required to explain these differences. © Oxford University Press Articles nationallicence mortality nationallicence Poland nationallicence Hungary nationallicence Czechoslovakia nationallicence Chenet Laurent Health Services Research Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT aut McKee Martin Health Services Research Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT aut Fulop Naomi Health Services Research Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT aut Bojan Ferenc Department of Social Medicine, Medical University of Debrecen Debrecen, H-4012, Hungary aut Brand Helmut Amt für Gesundheits- und Veterinarwesen Tesdorpfstrasse 8, D-20148 Hamburg, Germany aut Hort Angela Amt für Gesundheits- und Veterinarwesen Tesdorpfstrasse 8, D-20148 Hamburg, Germany aut Kalbarczyk Pawel School of Public Health Grzegorzecka 20, Krakow, Poland aut Journal of Public Health Oxford University Press 18/3(1996-09), 329-336 1741-3842 18:3<329 1996 18 pubmed https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubmed.a024514 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubmed.a024514 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Chenet Laurent Health Services Research Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- McKee Martin Health Services Research Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fulop Naomi Health Services Research Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bojan Ferenc Department of Social Medicine, Medical University of Debrecen Debrecen, H-4012, Hungary aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Brand Helmut Amt für Gesundheits- und Veterinarwesen Tesdorpfstrasse 8, D-20148 Hamburg, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hort Angela Amt für Gesundheits- und Veterinarwesen Tesdorpfstrasse 8, D-20148 Hamburg, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kalbarczyk Pawel School of Public Health Grzegorzecka 20, Krakow, Poland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Public Health Oxford University Press 18/3(1996-09), 329-336 1741-3842 18:3<329 1996 18 pubmed Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford