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ArticleInternational journal of public health2013

A country divided? Regional variation in mortality in Ukraine.

Adrianna Murphy, Nataliia Levchuk, Andrew Stickley, Bayard Roberts, Martin McKee

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Article in International journal of public health, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Adrianna MurphyEuropean Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, Department of Health Services Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 15-17 Tavistock Place, London, WC1H 9SH, UK, adrianna.murphy@lshtm.ac.uk.
Nataliia Levchuk
Andrew Stickley
Bayard Roberts
Martin McKee
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine · GBPtoukha Institute for Demography and Social Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine · UASödertörn University · SE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesWe set out to identify the contribution of various causes of death to regional differences in life expectancy in Ukraine.

methodsMortality data by oblast (province) were obtained from the State Statistical Committee of Ukraine. The contribution of various causes of death to differences in life expectancy between East, West and South Ukraine was estimated using decomposition.

resultsIn 2008, life expectancy for men in South (61.8 years) and East Ukraine (61.2 years) was lower than for men in West Ukraine (64.0 years). A similar pattern was observed among women. This was mostly due to deaths from infectious disease and external causes among young adults, and cardio- and cerebro-vascular deaths among older adults. Deaths from TB among young adults contribute most to differences in life expectancy.

conclusionsDeaths due to infectious disease, especially TB, play an important role in the gap in life expectancy between regions in Ukraine. These deaths are entirely preventable--further research is needed to identify what has 'protected' individuals in Western Ukraine from the burden of deaths experienced by their Southern and Eastern counterparts.

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