The Russian health crisis and the economy |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Materials Research Institute, The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA;2. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100050, PR China;3. Department of Neurosurgery, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA 17033, USA;4. Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Materials Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA;1. Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States;2. SILVIS Lab, Department of Forestry and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States;3. Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, United States;4. Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 10, DK-1350 København K, Denmark;5. Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Theodor-Lieser-Str. 2, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany;1. Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad 826004, India;2. Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi 110016, India |
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| Abstract: | Russia experienced a severe health crisis in the 1990s, as reflected by a drop in life expectancy. It has been suggested in literature that this poor state of health is likely to endure and will significantly retard economic growth in the country. This paper uses evidence from other former Communist countries and studies of income–health relationship across economies to evaluate these claims. It concludes that the mortality increases of 1988–94 and 1999–2000 were the effects, rather than causes, of the economic recession. The state of health is unlikely to put a brake on future economic growth. |
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