The Mortality Crisis in East Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Zimmermann, Klaus F.

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198297413.003.0010

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“…Riphahn and Zimmermann (1998) study the increase in mortality among East German men during the German reunification. Their results indicate that the increase in mortality is caused by an increase in individual stress.…”

Section: Differences In Health Within Germanymentioning

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Examining the structure of spatial health effects in Germany using Hierarchical Bayes Models

Ziebarth

2014

Regional Science and Urban Economics

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Section: Differences In Health Within Germanymentioning

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Examining the structure of spatial health effects in Germany using Hierarchical Bayes Models

Ziebarth

2014

Regional Science and Urban Economics

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“…, 1998). The use of individual data is very limited with examples in Brainerd and Cutler (2005), Zhang and Hwang (2007) and Leon (2007) on Russia and in Riphahn and Zimmermann (1998) on eastern Germany. While producing important insights into the determinants of mortality, aggregate data do not allow for complete control of household and individual heterogeneity thus limiting the strength of the tests.…”

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Adult mortality in Russia

Денисова

2010

Economics of Transition

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This paper studies the determinants of Russian adult mortality controlling for both individual and household heterogeneity. We employ survival analysis and utilize 12 rounds of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey spanning a 14-year period. Although confirming the crucial role of excessive alcohol consumption in shaping adult mortality risks in Russia, the results are original in several other respects. We find empirical support for the importance of relative status measured in non-income terms in shaping mortality hazards. We find evidence of the influence of labour market behaviour, and sectoral and occupational mobility in particular, on longevity. The detrimental role of smoking to health is found to be comparable with the role of excess alcohol consumption, which is novel in the Russian context where the influence of smoking is typically downplayed in comparison with alcoholism. Finally, we find no micro evidence in support of the political economy view based on a positive correlation between low alcohol prices and high mortality rates found in regional-level data. Copyright (c) 2010 The Author. Journal compilation (c) 2010 The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

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“…Because acute psychosocial stress is a key factor in sudden deaths, it arises when individuals are suddenly called upon to adjust to new situations for which the appropriate coping behaviors are unknown, and for which established response mechanisms are no longer effectual (Cornia and Paniccià 2000). In East Germany, for instance, mortality rates among men aged 15-45 years increased by approximately 30% between 1989 and 1991 in the wake of reunifi cation (Riphahn and Zimmermann 2000). For women, mortality increased substantially less.…”

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Forced migration and mortality in the very long term: Did perestroika affect death rates also in Finland?

Saarela

Finnäs

2009

Demography

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arge-scale population displacements often occur in relation to wars. This has been the case also for Finland. According to the Paris peace treaty after World War II, the country had to relinquish approximately 10% of its territory to the Soviet Union (see Figure 1). The population that was evacuated from this area during the period 1940-1945 could therefore not return home after the war and was relocated elsewhere in Finland. The internally displaced persons, who primarily were farmers, amounted to over 420,000 persons, or about 12% of the country's total population. The settlement of these Karelians was a large economic burden for the entire postwar agrarian Finland, in addition to the substantial amount of war reparations the country had to pay to the Soviet Union. All families had the right to receive a new homestead, and were allocated new land in proportion to their former property (Pihkala 1952;Virtanen 2006). As they prepared themselves for permanent existence in new surroundings and were expected to engage in all facets of economic, social, and political life (Ahonen 2005), they seem to have adapted well in postwar Finnish society. In this article, we approach the issue of their integration by focusing on mortality.Data from Finland provide an unusual opportunity to use high-quality and reliable information to study the interrelation between forced migration and mortality in the very long term. Available information, based on longitudinal population registers linked to mortality records, makes it possible to estimate death rates for people according to their region of birth for the entire period 1971-2004. Because the electronic population register goes back only to 1970, mortality during the fi rst two to three decades after evacuation lies beyond our scope.Conventional theory on migrants' adaptation to stress suggests that moving, and particularly being forced to move, imposes stress on the individual because it disturbs the equilibrium between the migrant and the environment (Ben-Sira 1997). This compels the migrant to readjust, which may negatively affect health and raise subsequent mortality.

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The Mortality Crisis in East Germany

Cited by 15 publications

References 6 publications

Examining the structure of spatial health effects in Germany using Hierarchical Bayes Models

Examining the structure of spatial health effects in Germany using Hierarchical Bayes Models

Adult mortality in Russia

Forced migration and mortality in the very long term: Did perestroika affect death rates also in Finland?

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