Aleshina, N., & Redmond, G. (2005). How high is infant mortality in central and eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States? Population Studies, 59, 39–54.
Article
Google Scholar
Anderson, B. A., & Silver, B. D. (1986). Infant mortality in the Soviet Union: Regional differences and measurement issues. Population and Development Review, 12, 705–738.
Article
Google Scholar
Bell, S., Daskalopoulou, M., Rapsomaniki, E., George, J., Britton, A., Bobak, M., . . . Hemingway, H. (2017). Association between clinically recorded alcohol consumption and initial presentation of 12 cardiovascular diseases: Population based cohort study using linked health records. BMJ, 356, j909. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j909
Bellis, M., Hughes, K., Cook, P., & Morleo, M. (2009). Off measure: How we underestimate the amount we drink. London, UK: Alcohol Concern.
Google Scholar
Bobak, M., & Marmot, M. (1996). East-west mortality divide and its potential explanations: Proposed research agenda. BMJ, 312, 421–425. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.312.7028.421
Article
Google Scholar
Brønnum-Hansen, H. (2017). Socially disparate trends in lifespan variation: A trend study on income and mortality based on nationwide Danish register data. BMJ Open, 7, e014489. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-014489
Bye, E. K. (2008). Alcohol and homicide in eastern Europe: A time series analysis of six countries. Homicide Studies, 12, 7–27.
Article
Google Scholar
Camarda, C. G. (2012). MortalitySmooth: An R package for smoothing Poisson counts with P-splines. Journal of Statistical Software, 50, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v050.i01
Article
Google Scholar
Case, A., & Deaton, A. (2015). Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112, 15078–15083.
Article
Google Scholar
Caselli, G., Meslé, F., & Vallin, J. (2002). Epidemiologic transition theory exceptions. Genus, 58(1), 9–51.
Google Scholar
Cífková, R., Škodová, Z., Bruthans, J., Adámková, V., Jozífová, M., Galovcová, M., . . . Lánská, V. (2010). Longitudinal trends in major cardiovascular risk factors in the Czech population between 1985 and 2007/8. Czech MONICA and Czech post-MONICA. Atherosclerosis, 211, 676–681.
Colchero, F., Rau, R., Jones, O. R., Barthold, J. A., Conde, D. A., Lenart, A., . . . Vaupel, J. W. (2016). The emergence of longevous populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113, E7681–E7690. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1612191113
Cooper, R., Schatzkin, A., & Sempos, C. (1984). Rising death rates among Polish men. International Journal of Health Services, 14, 289–302.
Article
Google Scholar
Edwards, R. D., & Tuljapurkar, S. (2005). Inequality in life spans and a new perspective on mortality convergence across industrialized countries. Population and Development Review, 31, 645–674.
Article
Google Scholar
Fihel, A., & Pechholdová, M. (2017). Between pioneers of the cardiovascular revolution and its late followers: Mortality changes in the Czech Republic and Poland since 1968. European Journal of Population, 33, 651–678.
Article
Google Scholar
Firebaugh, G., Acciai, F., Noah, A. J., Prather, C., & Nau, C. (2014). Why lifespans are more variable among blacks than among whites in the United States. Demography, 51, 2025–2045.
Article
Google Scholar
Gillespie, D. O., Trotter, M. V., & Tuljapurkar, S. D. (2014). Divergence in age patterns of mortality change drives international divergence in lifespan inequality. Demography, 51, 1003–1017.
Article
Google Scholar
Grigoriev, P. (2017). About mortality data for Belarus. Human mortality database: Background and documentation. Berkeley: University of California; and Rostock, Germany: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. Retrieved from http://www.mortality.org
Grigoriev, P., & Andreev, E. M. (2015). The huge reduction in adult male mortality in Belarus and Russia: Is it attributable to anti-alcohol measures? PLoS One, 10(9), e0138021. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138021
Article
Google Scholar
Grigoriev, P., Jasilionis, D., Shkolnikov, V. M., Meslé, F., & Vallin, J. (2015). Spatial variation of male alcohol-related mortality in Belarus and Lithuania. European Journal of Public Health, 26, 95–101.
Grigoriev, P., Meslé, F., Shkolnikov, V. M., Andreev, E., Fihel, A., Pechholdova, M., & Vallin, J. (2014). The recent mortality decline in Russia: Beginning of the cardiovascular revolution? Population and Development Review, 40, 107–129.
Article
Google Scholar
Horiuchi, S., Wilmoth, J. R., & Pletcher, S. D. (2008). A decomposition method based on a model of continuous change. Demography, 45, 785–801.
Article
Google Scholar
Human Cause-of-Death Database. (2016). Paris, France: French Institute for Demographic Studies; and Rostock, Germany: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. Retrieved from https://www.causesofdeath.org/cgi-bin/main.php
Human Mortality Database. (2016). Berkeley: University of California; and Rostock, Germany: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. Retrieved from https://www.mortality.org or https://humanmortality.de
Jasilionis, D. (2017a). About mortality data for Estonia. Human mortality database: Background and documentation. Berkeley: University of California; and Rostock, Germany: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. Retrieved from http://www.mortality.org
Jasilionis, D. (2017b). About mortality data for Latvia. Human mortality database: Background and documentation. Berkeley: University of California; and Rostock, Germany: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. Retrieved from http://www.mortality.org
Jasilionis, D. (2017c). About mortality data for Slovenia. Human mortality database: Background and documentation. Berkeley: University of California; and Rostock, Germany: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. Retrieved from http://www.mortality.org
Jasilionis, D., Meslé, F., Shkolnikov, V. M., & Vallin, J. (2011). Recent life expectancy divergence in Baltic countries. European Journal of Population/Revue européenne de Démographie, 27, 403–431.
Article
Google Scholar
Jasilionis, D., & Stankuniene, V. (2017). About mortality data for Lithuania. Human mortality database: Background and documentation. Berkeley: University of California; and Rostock, Germany: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. Retrieved from http://www.mortality.org
Jdanov, D., & Shkolnikov, V. M. (2017). About mortality data for Russia. Human mortality database: Background and documentation. Berkeley: University of California; and Rostock, Germany: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. Retrieved from http://www.mortality.org
Kauhanen, J., Kaplan, G. A., Goldberg, D. E., & Salonen, J. T. (1997). Beer binging and mortality: Results from the Kuopio ischaemic heart disease risk factor study, a prospective population based study. BMJ, 315, 846–851.
Article
Google Scholar
Kingkade, W. W., & Sawyer, C. C. (2001). Infant mortality in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union before and after the breakup. Washington, DC: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division.
Klatsky, A. L., Friedman, G. D., & Siegelaub, A. B. (1974). Alcohol consumption before myocardial infarction: Results from the Kaiser-Permanente epidemiologic study of myocardial infarction. Annals of Internal Medicine, 81, 294–301.
Kraus, L., Østhus, S., Amundsen, E. J., Piontek, D., Härkönen, J., Legleye, S., . . . Törrönen, J. (2015). Changes in mortality due to major alcohol-related diseases in four Nordic countries, France and Germany between 1980 and 2009: A comparative age-period-cohort analysis. Addiction, 110, 1443–1452.
Leon, D. A. (2011). Trends in European life expectancy: A salutary view. International Journal of Epidemiology, 40, 271–277.
Article
Google Scholar
Leon, D. A., Chenet, L., Shkolnikov, V. M., Zakharov, S., Shapiro, J., Rakhmanova, G., . . . McKee, M. (1997). Huge variation in Russian mortality rates 1984–94: Artefact, alcohol, or what? Lancet, 350, 383–388.
Leon, D. A., & Shkolnikov, V. M. (1998). Social stress and the Russian mortality crisis. JAMA, 279, 790–791.
Article
Google Scholar
Livingston, M., & Callinan, S. (2015). Underreporting in alcohol surveys: Whose drinking is underestimated? Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 76, 158–164.
Article
Google Scholar
Mackenbach, J. P., Stirbu, I., Roskam, A.-J. R., Schaap, M. M., Menvielle, G., Leinsalu, M., & Kunst, A. E. (2008). Socioeconomic inequalities in health in 22 European countries. New England Journal of Medicine, 358, 2468–2481.
Article
Google Scholar
Mäkelä, P., & Österberg, E. (2009). Weakening of one more alcohol control pillar: A review of the effects of the alcohol tax cuts in Finland in 2004. Addiction, 104, 554–563.
Article
Google Scholar
Martikainen, P., Mäkelä, P., Peltonen, R., & Myrskylä, M. (2014). Income differences in life expectancy: The changing contribution of harmful consumption of alcohol and smoking. Epidemiology, 25, 182–190.
Article
Google Scholar
McKee, M., & Shkolnikov, V. (2001). Understanding the toll of premature death among men in eastern Europe. BMJ, 323, 1051–1055.
Article
Google Scholar
McKee, M., Süzcs, S., Sárváry, A., Ádany, R., Kiryanov, N., Saburova, L., . . . Leon, D. A. (2005). The composition of surrogate alcohols consumed in Russia. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 29, 1884–1888.
Menon, K. N., Gores, G. J., & Shah, V. H. (2001). Pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of alcoholic liver disease. Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 76, 1021–1029.
Article
Google Scholar
Meslé, F. (2004). Mortality in central and eastern Europe: Long-term trends and recent upturns. Demographic Research, 2(article 3), 45–70. https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2004.S2.3
Article
Google Scholar
Meslé, F., Vallin, J., & Shkolnikov, V. (2000). Reversal of mortality decline: The case of contemporary Russia. World Health Statistics Quarterly, 51(2–4), 191–206.
Google Scholar
Montez, J. K., & Zajacova, A. (2013). Trends in mortality risk by education level and cause of death among US white women from 1986 to 2006. American Journal of Public Health, 103, 473–479.
Article
Google Scholar
Moser, K., Shkolnikov, V., & Leon, D. A. (2005). World mortality 1950–2000: Divergence replaces convergence from the late 1980s. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 83, 202–209.
Google Scholar
Nolte, E., Shkolnikov, V., & McKee, M. (2000a). Changing mortality patterns in East and West Germany and Poland. I: Long term trends (1960–1997). Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 54, 890–898.
Article
Google Scholar
Nolte, E., Shkolnikov, V., & McKee, M. (2000b). Changing mortality patterns in East and West Germany and Poland. II: Short-term trends during transition and in the 1990s. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 54, 899–906.
Article
Google Scholar
Pajak, A., & Kozela, M. (2011). Cardiovascular disease in central and east Europe. Public Health Reviews, 33, 416–435.
Article
Google Scholar
Pechholdová, M., Camarda, C.-G., Meslé, F., & Vallin, J. (2017). Reconstructing long-term coherent cause-of-death series, a necessary step for analyzing trends. European Journal of Population, 33, 629–650.
Article
Google Scholar
Philipov, D., & Jasilionis, D. (2017). About mortality data for Ukraine. Human mortality database: Background and documentation. Berkeley: University of California; and Rostock, Germany: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. Retrieved from http://www.mortality.org
Popova, S., Rehm, J., Patra, J., & Zatonski, W. (2007). Comparing alcohol consumption in central and eastern Europe to other European countries. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 42, 465–473.
Article
Google Scholar
Pyrozhkov, S., Foygt, N., & Jdanov, D. (2017). About mortality data for Ukraine. Human mortality database: Background and documentation. Berkeley: University of California; and Rostock, Germany: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. Retrieved from http://www.mortality.org
R Core Team. (2000). R language definition. Vienna, Austria: R Foundation for Statistical Computing.
Google Scholar
Rabinovich, L., Brutscher, P.-B., de Vries, H., Tiessen, J., Clift, J., & Reding, A. (2009). The affordability of alcoholic beverages in the European Union: Understanding the link between alcohol affordability, consumption and harms (Technical report). Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation.
Rau, R., Bohk, C., Muszyńska, M. M., & Vaupel, J. (2013). Rates of mortality improvement on the lexis surface (Technical report). Rostock, Germany: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.
Google Scholar
Razvodovsky, Y. E. (2010). Beverage-specific alcohol sales and violent mortality in Russia. Adicciones, 22, 311–315.
Article
Google Scholar
Rehm, J., Baliunas, D., Borges, G. L., Graham, K., Irving, H., Kehoe, T., . . . Taylor, B. (2010). The relation between different dimensions of alcohol consumption and burden of disease: An overview. Addiction, 105, 817–843.
Rehm, J., Room, R., Graham, K., Monteiro, M., Gmel, G., & Sempos, C. T. (2003). The relationship of average volume of alcohol consumption and patterns of drinking to burden of disease: An overview. Addiction, 98, 1209–1228.
Article
Google Scholar
Rehm, J., Sulkowska, U., Mańczuk, M., Boffetta, P., Powles, J., Popova, S., & Zatoński, W. (2007). Alcohol accounts for a high proportion of premature mortality in central and eastern Europe. International Journal of Epidemiology, 36, 458–467.
Article
Google Scholar
Riffe, T. (2018). DemoDecomp: Decompose Demographic Functions [R package version 1.0.1]. Available from https://rdrr.io/cran/DemoDecomp/
Robine, J.-M. (2001). Redefining the stages of the epidemiological transition by a study of the dispersion of life spans: The case of France. Population: An English Selection, 13(1), 173–193.
Roerecke, M., & Rehm, J. (2014). Alcohol consumption, drinking patterns, and ischemic heart disease: A narrative review of meta-analyses and a systematic review and meta-analysis of the impact of heavy drinking occasions on risk for moderate drinkers. BMC Medicine, 12, 182. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-014-0182-6
Rychtarikova, J. (2004). The case of the Czech Republic: Determinants of the recent favourable turnover in mortality. Demographic Research, 2(article 5), 105–138. https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2004.S2.5
Article
Google Scholar
Sasson, I. (2016). Trends in life expectancy and lifespan variation by educational attainment: United States, 1990–2010. Demography, 53, 269–293.
Article
Google Scholar
Seaman, R., Leyland, A. H., & Popham, F. (2016). Increasing inequality in age of death at shared levels of life expectancy: A comparative study of Scotland and England and Wales. SSM-Population Health, 2, 724–731.
Article
Google Scholar
Seligman, B., Greenberg, G., & Tuljapurkar, S. (2016). Equity and length of lifespan are not the same. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113, 8420–8423.
Article
Google Scholar
Shkolnikov, V., McKee, M., & Leon, D. A. (2001). Changes in life expectancy in Russia in the mid-1990s. Lancet, 357, 917–921.
Article
Google Scholar
Shkolnikov, V., Meslé, F., & Vallin, J. (2012). Data collection, data quality and the history of cause-of-death classification. In F. Meslé & J. Vallin (Eds.), Mortality and causes of death in 20th-century Ukraine: Demographic research monograph (K. George, Trans., pp. 121–130). Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer.
Shkolnikov, V. M., Andreev, E. M., & Begun, A. Z. (2003). Gini coefficient as a life table function: Computation from discrete data, decomposition of differences and empirical examples. Demographic Research, 8(article11), 305–358. https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2003.8.11
Article
Google Scholar
Shkolnikov, V. M., Andreev, E. M., Jasilionis, D., Leinsalu, M., Antonova, O. I., & McKee, M. (2006). The changing relation between education and life expectancy in central and eastern Europe in the 1990s. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 60, 875–881.
Article
Google Scholar
Shkolnikov, V. M., Andreev, E. M., McKee, M., & Leon, D. A. (2013). Components and possible determinants of the decrease in Russian mortality in 2004–2010. Demographic Research, 28(article 32), 917–950. https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2013.28.32
Shkolnikov, V. M., Andreev, E. M., Zhang, Z., Oeppen, J., & Vaupel, J. W. (2011). Losses of expected lifetime in the United States and other developed countries: Methods and empirical analyses. Demography, 48, 211–239.
Article
Google Scholar
Smits, J., & Monden, C. (2009). Length of life inequality around the globe. Social Science & Medicine, 68, 1114–1123.
Article
Google Scholar
Timonin, S., Danilova, I., Andreev, E., & Shkolnikov, V. M. (2017). Recent mortality trend reversal in Russia: Are regions following the same tempo? European Journal of Population, 33, 733–763.
Article
Google Scholar
Trias-Llimós, S., Kunst, A. E., Jasilionis, D., & Janssen, F. (2018). The contribution of alcohol to the east-west life expectancy gap in Europe from 1990 onward. International Journal of Epidemiology, 47, 731–739.
Article
Google Scholar
UNICEF. (2003). Social monitor 2003 (Innocenti Social Monitor Series No. 2). Florence, Italy: United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Innocenti Research Centre.
van Raalte, A. A., & Caswell, H. (2013). Perturbation analysis of indices of lifespan variability. Demography, 50, 1615–1640.
Article
Google Scholar
van Raalte, A. A., Martikainen, P., & Myrskylä, M. (2014). Lifespan variation by occupational class: Compression or stagnation over time? Demography, 51, 73–95.
Article
Google Scholar
Vaupel, J. W., & Canudas-Romo, V. (2003). Decomposing change in life expectancy: A bouquet of formulas in honor of Nathan Keyfitz’s 90th birthday. Demography, 40, 201–216.
Article
Google Scholar
Vaupel, J. W., Zhang, Z., & van Raalte, A. A. (2011). Life expectancy and disparity: An international comparison of life table data. BMJ Open, 1, e000128. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2011-000128
Article
Google Scholar
Wilmoth, J. R., & Horiuchi, S. (1999). Rectangularization revisited: Variability of age at death within human populations. Demography, 36, 475–495.
Article
Google Scholar
World Health Organization (WHO). (2000). The world health report 2000. Health systems: Improving performance. Geneva, Switzerland: WHO Office of Publications.
Google Scholar
Zaridze, D., Brennan, P., Boreham, J., Boroda, A., Karpov, R., Lazarev, A., . . . Peto, R. (2009). Alcohol and cause-specific mortality in Russia: A retrospective case-control study of 48,557 adult deaths. Lancet, 373, 2201–2214.
Zaridze, D., Lewington, S., Boroda, A., Scélo, G., Karpov, R., Lazarev, A., . . . Peto, R. (2014). Alcohol and mortality in Russia: Prospective observational study of 151,000 adults. Lancet, 383, 1465–1473.
Zatonski, W. A., McMichael, A. J., & Powles, J. W. (1998). Ecological study of reasons for sharp decline in mortality from ischaemic heart disease in Poland since 1991. BMJ, 316, 1047–1051.
Article
Google Scholar
Zhang, Z., & Vaupel, J. W. (2009). The age separating early deaths from late deaths. Demographic Research, 20(article 29), 721–730. https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2009.20.29
Article
Google Scholar