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   Nemo_bis 🌈 (nemobis@mamot.fr)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 00:10:59 JST Nemo_bis 🌈

   I first saw this chart a couple years ago and it never stopped haunting me since. Imagine how it continues for the next 30 years.
   https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8553909/

   #SovietUnion #Healthcare #statistics

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     Nemo_bis 🌈 (nemobis@mamot.fr)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 00:16:49 JST Nemo_bis 🌈

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     «In Russia, the death rate among men age 35 to 44 more than doubled between 1989 and 1994; for women in the same age group the death rate increased by 80 percent.»

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     giga 🔻 (thatgiga@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 01:49:08 JST giga 🔻

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     @nemobis penso che la vodka giochi un ruolo abbastanza importante.

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     Nemo_bis 🌈 (nemobis@mamot.fr)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 01:49:08 JST Nemo_bis 🌈

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     • giga 🔻

     @thatgiga Sì, vedi fig. 2 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8553909/figure/Fig2/ ; ma il rapporto causale non è ancora dimostrato oltre ogni dubbio. Leggi fino alla fine. :D

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     mlinksva (mlinksva@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 05:08:20 JST mlinksva

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     @nemobis the (indeed striking) post-Soviet part not news to me (hopefully next 30y continues catchup to ~France) and heard of the Gorbachev anti-alchohol campaign but did not know it produced an immediate bump. Totally new to me is the slow decline from the early 1960s til that campaign. Wonder what caused that? https://www.jstor.org/stable/2955420 (paywalled for me unless accessed through https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=14164432045154804623&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5) very weakly seems to say lifestyle and bad fit of Soviet healthcare for lifestyle diseases?

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     Nemo_bis 🌈 (nemobis@mamot.fr)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 05:08:20 JST Nemo_bis 🌈

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     • mlinksva

     @mlinksva I don't know, but I suspect it's no coincidence that this started around the same time as the 1965 economic reforms.
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965_Soviet_economic_reform

     Francis Spufford's "Red Plenty" (strongly recommended reading!) has some stories from that time. In hindsight, some have been very important. For example changes to the pricing of meat, meant to help increase production. The Novocherkassk massacre was in 1962. Spufford's source is Michael Ellman's "Planning Problems in the USSR".

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     Nemo_bis 🌈 (nemobis@mamot.fr)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 05:21:44 JST Nemo_bis 🌈

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     @mlinksva Brainerd's preview paper "Reassessing the Standard of Living in the Soviet Union: An Analysis Using Archival and Anthropometric Data" (2003) attempts to find the culprit with oblast-by-oblast data comparisons. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/mharrison/archive/noticeboard/bergson/brainerd.pdf