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SUMMARY:The Political Economy of Public Health: Explaining the Postcommuni
 st Mortality Crisis - Professor Lawrence King\, Professor in Sociology and
  Political Economy\, University of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Lucy Lloyd
DESCRIPTION:With the fall of the Berlin Wall\, the countries of the former
  Soviet bloc underwent a rapid transition to markets and private property.
   Life expectancy\, stagnating since the 1960s\, was expected to rapidly c
 onverge with rates in Western Europe.  While a few countries in Central Ea
 stern Europe did move on to this path\, many others underwent a “reverse
  epidemiological transition” – life expectancy declined by up to 6 yea
 rs\, and there was a resurgence of infectious diseases like TB. Excess mor
 tality in the 1990s\, or deaths that would not have occurred if mortality 
 had remained at 1989 levels\, totaled over 3.2 million lives.  This talk w
 ill present evidence linking the variation in the increase in mortality an
 d TB to macro- and micro-economic reforms that accompanied the transition 
 to capitalism in the early 1990s.  This type of analysis is an example of 
 the political economy of public health\, a multi-disciplinary approach lin
 king the Germanic tradition of social science to public health research.
LOCATION:Large Seminar Room\, 1st Floor\, Institute of Public Health\, Uni
 versity Forvie Site\, Robinson Way\, Cambridge
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