Publication Date:
2000-07-06
Description:
The end of communism opened up a life of economic uncertainty in the Eastern Bloc. And that, say some social scientists, may be exerting a deadly effect on residents, whose high expectations that their lives would improve were quickly dashed by the bumpy transition to a market economy. Disillusionment led to stress and depression, and depression was a harbinger of death.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Stone, R -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2000 Jun 9;288(5472):1732-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10877687" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Communism
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Coronary Disease/etiology/*mortality/psychology
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Depression/complications/*epidemiology
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Europe, Eastern
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Female
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Humans
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Life Expectancy
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Male
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*Mortality
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*Political Systems
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Risk Factors
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*Social Change
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Stress, Psychological/complications/*epidemiology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
