Premature Death in the New Independent States

Jose Luis Bobadilla, Christine A. Costello, and Faith Mitchell, Editors; Committee on Population, National Research Council

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Premature Death in the New Independent States: Overview; 3 Recent Trends in Life Expectancy and Causes of Death in Russia, 1970-1993; 4 Spatial, Age, and Cause-of-Death Patterns of Mortality in Russia, 1988-1989; 5 Issues of Data Quality in Assessing Mortality Trends and Levels in the New Independent States; 6 Mortality in the New Independent States: Patterns and Impacts; 7 Epidemiological Transitions in the Former Socialist Economies: Divergent Patterns of Mortality and Causes of Death; 8 Soviet and Russian Statistics on Alcohol Consumption and Abuse; 9 The Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Variations in Russian Mortality; 10 Mortality from Tobacco in the New Independent States; 11 Cigarette Smoking and Priorities for Tobacco Control in the New Independent States; 12 Tobacco Control Policy Strategies: Lessons from Western Developed Countries; 13 Nutritional Risk Factors in the Former Soviet Union; 14 Chronic Disease Prevention in the New Independent States: Finnish Experiences; 15 Diet Modification and Food Policy Strategies: What Works?; 16 Appendix - Workshop Agendas; 17 Index