Health and Social Change in Russia and Eastern Europe

• Author(s): William C. Cockerham,
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Pages: 284
• ISBN_10: 0415920809
  ISBN_13: 9780415920803
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Health & Fitness / General , Health & Fitness / Health Care Issues , Medical / General , Medical / Allied Health Services / General , MEDICAL / Diseases , Medical / Health Care Delivery , Medical / Health Policy , Medical / Public Health , Political Science / Public Policy / Social Policy , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General , Social Science / Sociology / General , Social Science / Death & Dying , Social Science / Disease & Health Issues ,

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For the first time, life expectancy is declining in an industrialized society. In this pioneering work, William C. Cockerham examines the social causes of the decline in life expectancy beginning in the 1960s including:
*Russia
*Poland
*Hungary
*Romania
*Bulgaria
*the Czech Republic
*and East Germany.
Health and Social Change in Russia and Eastern Europe argues that the roots of this change are mainly social rather than biomedical - the result of poor policy decisions, stress and an unhealthy diet. Cockerham presents a theory of postmodern social change that goes beyond the borders of Eastern Europe.