IJE Advance Access originally published online on December 4, 2006
International Journal of Epidemiology 2006 35(6):1384-1394; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl238
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The Health Crisis in the USSR*
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Review of Rising Infant Mortality in the USSR in the 1970s By Christopher Davis and Murray Feshbach, United States Bureau of the Census. Series P-95, No 74, September 1980, 33 pp., free.
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If we could judge it solely by advances in health, the twentieth century would be a fabulous success. Few of us who take food and doctors for granted realize or appreciate this. In 1900 life expectancy for the whole of the human race was about thirty years.1 Today it is twice as long: at least sixty-one years, possibly sixty-three or more.2 Since the human lifespan was probably never much less than twenty for any length of time—to drop much below that level is to court eventual extinction3—this means that about three-fourths of the improvement in longevity in the history of our species has occurred in the last eighty years.4
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