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Mortality and Causes of Death in 20th-Century Ukraine

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Authors:
  1. France Meslé

    1. Institut National d'Études Démographique, Paris Cedex 20, France

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  2. Jacques Vallin

    1. Institut National d'Études Démographique, Paris Cedex 20, France

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  • A precise reassessment of the demographic impact of 1933 famine and of World War 2
  • An appraisal of the negative trends in life expectancy since the mid 1960s
  • An original and comprehensive analysis of causes of death trends since 1965

Part of the book series: Demographic Research Monographs (DEMOGRAPHIC)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. General Introduction

    • France Meslé, Jacques Vallin
    Pages 1-4

  3. Long-Term Trends in Life Expectancy and the Consequences of Major Historical Disasters

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-11
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  4. Long-term trends in life expectancy and the consequences of major historical disasters

    1. The Crisis of the 1930s

      • Jacques Vallin, France Meslé, Sergei Adamets, Serhii Pyrozhkov
      Pages 13-38

    2. The Consequences of the Second World War and the Stalinist Repression

      • Jacques Vallin, France Meslé, Sergei Adamets, Serhii Pyrozhkov
      Pages 39-74

  5. Eighty Years of Trends in Sex-Specific and Age-Specific Mortality

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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  6. Eighty years of trends in sex-specific and age-specific mortality

    1. Is Mortality Under-Estimated?

      • France Meslé, Jacques Vallin, Vladimir Shkolnikov
      Pages 77-88

    2. Eighty Years of Sex-Specific and Age-Specific Mortality Trends

      • France Meslé, Jacques Vallin, Vladimir Shkolnikov
      Pages 89-101

    3. Ukrainians and Russians in Ukraine and in Russia

      • Vladimir Shkolnikov
      Pages 103-107

    4. Health Crises and Cohort Mortality

      • Vladimir Shkolnikov
      Pages 109-117

  7. Cause-Specific Mortality Trends from 1965

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-120
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  8. Cause-specific mortality trends from 1965

    1. Data Collection, Data Quality and the History of Cause-of-Death Classification

      • Vladimir Shkolnikov, France Meslé, Jacques Vallin
      Pages 121-130

    2. Reconstructing Series of Deaths by Cause with Constant Definitions

      • France Meslé, Jacques Vallin
      Pages 131-152

    3. General Trends in Mortality by Cause

      • France Meslé, Jacques Vallin
      Pages 153-172

    4. Impact of Major Groups of Causes on Life Expectancy Trends

      • France Meslé, Jacques Vallin, Serhii Pyrozhkov
      Pages 173-195

    5. Mortality Trends by Age Group and Detailed Causes of Death

      • France Meslé, Jacques Vallin
      Pages 197-269

    6. Conclusion

      • France Meslé, Jacques Vallin
      Pages 271-273

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 275-279
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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.​

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institut National d'Études Démographique, Paris Cedex 20, France

    France Meslé, Jacques Vallin

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mortality and Causes of Death in 20th-Century Ukraine

  • Authors: France Meslé, Jacques Vallin

  • Series Title: Demographic Research Monographs

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2433-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-2432-7Published: 08 January 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8340-8Published: 24 February 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-2433-4Published: 07 January 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1613-5520

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-9286

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 282

  • Topics: Migration, Public Health, History, general, Political Science

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