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IJE Advance Access originally published online on April 27, 2006
International Journal of Epidemiology 2006 35(3):797-799; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl076
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2006; all rights reserved.

Letter to the Editor

Centrally planned economies, economic slumps, and health conditions

JOSÉ A TAPIA GRANADOS

Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations and School of Social Work, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

E-mail: jatapia@umich.edu

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I am not sure why Boncz and Sebestyén,1 while ignoring contributors providing specific comments on Eastern Europe to the IJE debate on mortality and economic growth,2,3 refer in their letter to other contributions4,5 in which nothing is said about the issue. Whatever Boncz and Sebestyén's reasons for this, they discuss colourfully the division of Europe in Yalta (1945) into an American and a Russian sphere of influence, describing it as ‘the largest medical trial in history,’ in which the two groups of patients—countries—separated by ‘the iron curtain,’ were assigned to two different treatments, ‘capitalism’ and . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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