Affiliation:
1. Institute of Economics, Centre of Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1112. Budapest, Budaörsi út 45, Hungary .
Abstract
Abstract
Even two decades after the start of transition, mortality rates in Central and Eastern Europe are much higher than in Western Europe. This study presents and quantifies the impact on mortality of factors beyond the usual explanations. These factors are the advantageous and disadvantageous health effects of the geographical location of individual countries, as well as the economic structure, price structure and political priorities of the pre-transition systems in Central and Eastern Europe associated with anomic, self-destructive lifestyles. For adult males, mortality results show significant impact from level of development, health expenditure, latitude of countries, spirit consumption, education and air pollution. The impact of development, health expenditure, latitude, air pollution appear the same for both gender’s mortality.
Subject
Law,General Economics, Econometrics and Finance