Obsuzhdayutsya razlichiya v raspredelenii nabora sotsial'nykh i mediko-demograficheskikh pokazateley mezhdu vostochnymi i zapadnymi regionami Ukrainy i Belarusi - evropeyskikh gosudarstv, nakhodyashchikhsya na porubezh'i zapadnoy (latinskoy) i russkoy (pravoslavnoy) tsivilizatsiy. Regional'nyy sravnitel'nyy analiz raskryvaet soderzhanie i kharakter deystviya ustoychivykh sotsial'nykh i mental'nykh struktur, kotorye funktsioniruyut v istoricheskikh ramkakh razlichnykh tsivilizatsionnykh arealov. V kachestve materiala issledovaniya ispol'zovany statisticheskie dannye vtoroy poloviny XX i nachala XXI stoletiya.