A socially patterned epidemic of deaths of despair is a signal feature of American society in
the twenty-first century, involving rising mortality from substance use disorders and self-harm …

We conducted the first synthesis of theories on causal associations and pathways
connecting degree of control in the living environment to socio-economic inequalities in …

This paper investigates the effect of the socioeconomic development on life expectancy at
birth as an indicator of mortality or longevity in five EU accession candidate countries …

The world is currently in the midst of the greatest demographic upheaval in human history.
Dramatic reductions in mortality, followed (but with a lag) by equally marked reductions in …

During the 1990s, Russia underwent an extraordinary transformation from a communist
dictatorship to a multi-party democracy, from a centrally planned economy to a market …

During the 1980's child survival first time attached with biological and social factors for its
determination (Mosley and Chen, 1984). Socioeconomic factors need some proximate factor …

Background Over the past few decades, social and economic changes have had substantial
effects on health and wellbeing in Russia. We aimed to use data from the Global Burden of …

This study has analyzed the determinants of social progress in the presence of
macroeconomic instability in Pakistan over the period of 1980 to 2015. Under-five survival …

While, during several decades, unfavourable trends in mortality were quite similar in Central
Europe and in the former USSR, in the most recent years, these two parts of Europe are …

Male suicide rates in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and the Baltic countries increased
substantially in the early 1990s and are now the highest in the world. To what extent is this …