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Comparison of mortality trends in Central Europe and Baltic countries from 1970 to the present
Horník, Vojtěch ; Hulíková Tesárková, Klára (advisor) ; Burcin, Boris (referee)
Comparison of mortality trends in Central Europe and Baltic countries from 1970 to the present Abstract The aim of this thesis is to assess the most important mortality trends development in countries of Central Europe and Baltic region between 1970 and 2009. The measures used involve life expectancy at birth and life expectancy at the age of 65; besides of this, the age-specific contributions to life expectancy changes are computed according to the method of R. Pressat. The convergence and divergence tendencies among the analyzed countries and between the two regions are evaluated in this thesis as well. Main findings are, on one hand, that mortality trends are relatively similar within each of the regions. When comparing regions between each other, however, significant differences, mostly in the period between mid-1980s and mid-1990s, arise, they are attributed mostly to the influence of mortality crisis in Baltic region after the Soviet Union dissolution. Even though after 1994 mortality development was favourable in Baltic countries, they did not reach mortality level of Central Europe until 2009. Keywords: mortality, Central Europe, Baltic countries, life expectancy, decomposition, convergence, divergence
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Health expectancy in Europe: analysis of explanatory factors
Horník, Vojtěch ; Hulíková Tesárková, Klára (advisor) ; Kulhánová, Ivana (referee)
Health expectancy in Europe: analysis of explanatory factors Abstract Health expectancies are aggregate measures of morbidity and mortality. This thesis analyzes health expectancies in European countries, especially in relation to factors that explain variation in values of health expectancy. Healthy life years and healthy life expectancy based on self-perceived health are chosen as specific indicators used throughout the analysis. First, trends in these measures are analyzed in the period 2005-2017. Second, healthy life expectancy based on self-perceived health is regressed on gross domestic product (GDP), measures of education, long-term unemployment rate, share of government expenditure on health and a measure of income inequality. Income inequality and education are found to have significant associations with health expectancy. For GDP and health expenditures, results were not conclusive. Unemployment was found to be associated with health expectancy positively, contradictory to expectations. Keywords: health expectancy, healthy life years, self-perceived health, regression, morbidity
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Comparison of mortality trends in Central Europe and Baltic countries from 1970 to the present
Horník, Vojtěch ; Hulíková Tesárková, Klára (advisor) ; Burcin, Boris (referee)
Comparison of mortality trends in Central Europe and Baltic countries from 1970 to the present Abstract The aim of this thesis is to assess the most important mortality trends development in countries of Central Europe and Baltic region between 1970 and 2009. The measures used involve life expectancy at birth and life expectancy at the age of 65; besides of this, the age-specific contributions to life expectancy changes are computed according to the method of R. Pressat. The convergence and divergence tendencies among the analyzed countries and between the two regions are evaluated in this thesis as well. Main findings are, on one hand, that mortality trends are relatively similar within each of the regions. When comparing regions between each other, however, significant differences, mostly in the period between mid-1980s and mid-1990s, arise, they are attributed mostly to the influence of mortality crisis in Baltic region after the Soviet Union dissolution. Even though after 1994 mortality development was favourable in Baltic countries, they did not reach mortality level of Central Europe until 2009. Keywords: mortality, Central Europe, Baltic countries, life expectancy, decomposition, convergence, divergence
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