Year 1989, the fall of communism, represents a dramatic watershed. Changes and reforms reflected also upon the quality of health care and the health of populations living on eastern side of the divide. Until then, Eastern Europe had free socialized medicine, albeit troubled by lack of up-to-date medications and absence of modern diagnostic equipment. Noting the admirable progress in health in some regions of the former Soviet empire during its transformation provides invaluable sociological lesson. Furthermore, focusing on health trends in two Central European countries, the Czech republic (CZ) and Slovakia (SK), brings about another quality to such evaluation. Dramatic improvement in the life expectancy (LE) is represented mainly in the decrease of cardiovascular mortality, more in the Czech Republic than in Slovakia. Favorable trend of male LE in the Czech Republic exceeded several established West European countries, while in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine the life expectancy actually deteriorated. When life expectancy in Slovakia is compared with the Czech Republic, its poorer outcome results from a higher cardiovascular mortality, as well as from liver, digestive and respiratory disorders. Root causes of this difference are possibly in a marked difference in funding of health care between SK and CZ, higher consumption of alcohol and cigarettes, as well as in a sizeable disadvantaged Roma minority in Slovakia.
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- dějiny 20. století MeSH
- kardiovaskulární nemoci epidemiologie etnologie MeSH
- kouření epidemiologie etnologie trendy MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- naděje dožití etnologie trendy MeSH
- nemoci dýchací soustavy epidemiologie etnologie MeSH
- nemoci trávicího systému epidemiologie etnologie MeSH
- Romové etnologie statistika a číselné údaje MeSH
- statistika jako téma metody MeSH
- Světová zdravotnická organizace MeSH
- výdaje na zdravotnictví dějiny statistika a číselné údaje trendy MeSH
- zdraví menšin ekonomika etnologie MeSH
- Check Tag
- dějiny 20. století MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- mužské pohlaví MeSH
- Publikační typ
- přehledy MeSH
- Geografické názvy
- Česká republika MeSH
- Evropa MeSH
- Slovenská republika MeSH
