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Development and specifics of mortality in European post-socialist countries since 1990
Solařová, Kristýna ; Hulíková Tesárková, Klára (advisor) ; Burcin, Boris (referee)
Development and specifics of mortality in European post-socialist countries since 1990 Abstract The aim of this thesis is to track, analyze and assess main trends of mortality development in selected European post-socialist countries between 1990 and 2010. At the beginning, the thesis resumes the similarities in history of mortality trends in analyzed countries (the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Latvia and Ukraine) during the second half of the 20th century. It then describes the factors that caused the mortality heterogeneity in these states after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Emphasis is placed on mortality crises, which have negatively affected the mortality trends in Latvia and Ukraine, as well as on conditions of favourable development in Bulgaria and especially in the Czech Republic. The development of total mortality level is described using life expectancy at birth. Since all analyzed states are characterized by higher male mortality rates, the phenomenon of male mortality excess is explained later on in the thesis. The thesis also describes and analyzes the development of death causes (neoplasm, circulatory system diseases and external causes). The findings of the previous chapters are followed by Pollard's two-dimensional decomposition of the differences in life expectancy at birth between 1990...
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