The effect of rapid privatisation on mortality in mono-industrial towns in post-Soviet Russia: a retrospective cohort study

• Main Authors: Dr Aytalina Azarova, PhD (Author), Darja Irdam, PhD (Author), Alexi Gugushvili, PhD (Author), Mihaly Fazekas, PhD (Author), Gábor Scheiring, MA (Author), Pia Horvat, PhD (Author), Denes Stefler, PhD (Author), Prof Irina Kolesnikova, PhD (Author), Prof Vladimir Popov, PhD (Author), Prof Ivan Szelenyi, PhD (Author), Prof David Stuckler, PhD (Author), Prof Michael Marmot, PhD (Author), Prof Michael Murphy, PhD (Author), Prof Martin McKee, MD (Author), Prof Martin Bobak, PhD (Author), Prof Lawrence King, PhD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2017-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Population-level data suggest that economic disruptions in the early 1990s increased working-age male mortality in post-Soviet countries. This study uses individual-level data, using an indirect estimation method, to test the hypothesis that fast privatisation increased mortality in Russ...