Premature Death in the New Independent States - Causes of increased deaths in former states of the USSR. Book chapter viewable onlineat

Premature Death in the New Independent States

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Causes of increased deaths in former states of the USSR. Book chapter viewable online at National Academy Press site.

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Desc:	Nat'l Academies Press, Premature Death in the New Independent States (1997), Mortality in the New Independent States: Patterns and Impacts
	...Our approach to adjusting former Soviet infant mortality rates is to accept the probabilities of dying between months 4 and 10 implied by the official data and then use these rates to estimate the probability of dying in the first month....
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