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International Journal of Epidemiology 2006 35(6):1394-1397; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl236
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Commentary: Reflections on ‘The Health Crisis in the USSR’

Nicholas Eberstadt

Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy, American Enterprise Institute in Public Policy Research, 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington DC 20036, USA

E-mail: eberstadt@aei.org

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It seems hard to believe that a quarter century has passed since the publication of my essay ‘The Health Crisis in the USSR’1—but it is gratifying to see that the essay still has an audience, and still more gratifying to know that the audience includes readers of the calibre that this journal attracts. Since the editors have kindly invited me to comment on this essay's more-or-less silver anniversary, a few reminiscences may be in order about its origins and the controversy it initially elicited—as well as an afterthought or two about the essay's central arguments.

At the time ‘The Health Crisis in the USSR’ appeared, I was a graduate student, just finishing a fellowship at the Rockefeller Foundation, and beginning what was to be an unusually long and happy visiting fellowship with the Harvard Center for Population Studies. I was working on, well, practically anything but my dissertation.

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