IJE Advance Access originally published online on September 23, 2008
International Journal of Epidemiology 2009 38(1):156-157; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn202
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Commentary: Russia's mortality crisis, alcohol and social transformation
Department of Social Sciences, Mid Sweden University, SE-83125 Östersund, Sweden. E-mail: per.carlson@miun.se
Accepted 28 August 2008
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After the fall of communism in Eastern Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s, it was generally believed that the poor state of public health in this region would improve. Instead, in many countries it became even worse. In Russia for instance, life expectancy fell by an unprecedented 6 years between 1987 and 1994.1 In relation
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