Health crisis in Russia. II. Changes in causes of death: a comparison with France and England and Wales (1970 to 1993).
Year: 1996
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: "Trends in Russian mortality appear all the more negative in comparison with the very favourable trends in most Western countries, especially during the last two decades. To highlight the most damaging causes, we compare Russian cause-specific mortality trends with those observed in France and England and Wales, two countries for which we have reconstructed continuous time series of deaths by cause.... It was within the framework of...30 categories [of causes] that we calculated death rates by age group and standardized mortality rates by cause...."
Source: PubMed
Authors: V Shkolnikov, F Mesle, J Vallin
Language: English
Subfield: Epidemiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2285559868