The Recent Mortality Decline in Russia: Beginning of the Cardiovascular Revolution?

Population and Development Review

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 107-129

  Grigoriev, Pavel ^a   Meslé, France ^b   Shkolnikov, Vladimir M ^a,c   Andreev, Evgeny ^c   Fihel, Agnieszka ^d   Pechholdova, Marketa ^b   Vallin, Jacques ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL D'ÉTUDES DÉMOGRAPHIQUES   (France)

^c NEW ECONOMIC SCHOOL   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; HEALTH STATUS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ESTONIA; FRANCE; POLAND; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 84896380508     PISSN: 00987921     EISSN: 17284457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2014.00652.x     Document Type: Article

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