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International Journal of Epidemiology 2009 38(2):525-527; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn371
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Commentary: The study by Leinsalu et al. on mortality differentials in Eastern Europe highlights the need for better data

Domantas Jasilionis, Vladimir M Shkolnikov* and Evgueni M Andreev

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Konrad Zuse Str. 1, 18057 Rostock, Germany.

* Corresponding author. Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Konrad Zuse Str. 1, 18057 Rostock, Germany. E-mail: shkolnikov@demogr.mpg.de

Accepted 16 December 2008

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Among numerous studies on mortality in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, only a few have addressed temporal changes in socioeconomic mortality differences. In 1998, Shkolnikov et al.1 reported a rapid rise in mortality differences by education between 1988–89 and 1994 in Russia. A later study by Leinsalu et al.2 revealed a notable widening of these differences in Estonia between 1989 and 2000. Kalediene and Petrauskiene3 described a very similar change in Lithuania between 1989 and 2001. Finally, a study by Shkolnikov et al.4 compared changes in educational differences in mortality between the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland and Russia: it was found that during the 1990s mortality differences in the Czech Republic and Finland increased only moderately, whereas in Russia and Estonia the increase was striking.

The present study by Leinsalu5 continues and extends this work in two important directions. First, the study analyses changes in education-specific mortality in . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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