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Mortality and Health in Eastern Europe

Domantas Jasilionis, Vladimir M. Shkolnikov, Dmitri A. Jdanov; in Collaboration with David A. Leon, Martin McKee, Sergi Trias Limos (all: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom), Evgeny Andreev (National Research University – Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation), Sergey Timonin (Australian National University, Australia), Elena Papanova, Elena Churilova (both: National Research University – Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation), Jacques Vallin, France Meslé (both: French National Institute for Demographic Studies, Paris, France), Giedré Smailyté (National Cancer Institute, Vilnius, Lithuania), Daumantas Stumbrys (Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania)

The project includes a variety of studies on mortality and health in Central and Eastern Europe. Project studies examine life-expectancy changes and their determinants, causes of death, spatial and socioeconomic differences, and major behavioral risk factors.  Detailed Description

Publications

Jasilionis, D.; Meslé, F.; Vallin, J.:

Is East-West life expectancy gap narrowing in the enlarged European Union?

Comparative Population Studies 48, 523–552. (2023)    

Nikoloski, Z.; Shkolnikov, V. M.; Mossialos, E.:

Preventable mortality in the Russian Federation: a retrospective, regional level study

The Lancet Regional Health - Europe 29:100631, 1–13. (2023)    

Rehm, J.; Badaras, R.; Ferreira-Borges, C.; Galkus, L.; Goštautaitė Midttun, N.; Gobiņa, I.; Janik-Koncewicz, K.; Jasilionis, D.; Jiang, H.; Kim, K. V.; Lange, S.; Liutkutė-Gumarov, V.; Manthey, J.; Miščikienė, L.; Neufeld, M.; Petkevičienė, J.; Radišauskas, R.; Reile, R.; Room, R.; Stoppel, R.; Tamutienė, I.; Tran, A.; Trišauskė, J.; Zatoński, M.; Zatoński, W. A.; Zurlytė, I.; Štelemėkas, M.:

Impact of the WHO "best buys" for alcohol policy on consumption and health in the Baltic countries and Poland 2000–2020

The Lancet Regional Health - Europe 33:100704, 1–9. (2023)    

Rehm, J.; Lange, S.; Gobiņa, I.; Janik-Koncewicz, K.; Miščikienė, L.; Reile, R.; Stoppel, R.; Tran, A.; Ferreira-Borges, C.; Jasilionis, D.; Jiang, H.; Kim, K. V.; Manthey, J.; Neufeld, M.; Petkevičienė, J.; Radišauskas, R.; Room, R.; Liutkutė-Gumarov, V.; Zatoński, W. A.; Štelemėkas, M.:

Classifying alcohol control policies enacted between 2000 and 2020 in Poland and the Baltic countries to model potential impact

Addiction 118:3, 449–458. (2023)    

Stumbrys, D.; Štelemėkas, M.; Jasilionis, D.; Rehm, J.:

Weekly pattern of alcohol-attributable male mortality before and after imposing limits on hours of alcohol sale in Lithuania in 2018

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 1–6. (2023)    

Lange, S.; Rehm, J.; Tran, A.; Bagge, C. L.; Jasilionis, D.; Kaplan, M. S.; Meščeriakova-Veliulienė, O.; Štelemėkas, M.; Probst, C.:

Comparing gender-specific suicide mortality rate trends in the United States and Lithuania, 1990–2019: putting one of the “deaths of despair” into perspective

BMC Psychiatry 22:127, 1–9. (2022)    

Leon, D. A.; Jdanov, D. A.; Gerry, C. J.; Grigoriev, P.; Jasilionis, D.; McKee, M.; Meslé, F.; Penina, O.; Twigg, J.; Vallin, J.; Vågerö, D.:

The Russian invasion of Ukraine and its public health consequences

The Lancet Regional Health - Europe 15:100358, 1–2. (2022)    

Shkolnikov, V. M.; Andreev, E. M.; Jasilionis, D.:

Changes in mortality disparities by education in Russia from 1998 to 2017: evidence from indirect estimation

European Journal of Public Health 32:1, 21–23. (2022)    

Trias Llimós, S.; Cook, S.; Eggen, A. E.; Kudryavtsev , A. V.; Malyutina, S.; Shkolnikov, V. M.; Leon, D. A.:

Socioeconomic inequalities in physiological risk biomarkers and the role of lifestyles among Russians aged 35-69 years

International Journal for Equity in Health 21:51, 1–11. (2022)    

Cooper, R.; Shkolnikov, V. M.; Kudryavtsev , A. V.; Malyutina, S.; Ryabikov, A.; Arnesdatter Hopstock, L.; Johansson, J.; Cook, S.; Leon, D. A.; Strand, B. H.:

Between-study differences in grip strength: a comparison of Norwegian and Russian adults aged 40-69 years

Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia, and Muscle 12:6, 2091–2100. (2021)    

Shchur, A.; Shkolnikov, V. M.; Timonin, S. A.; Andreev, E. M.; Leon, D. A.:

Where do people live longer in Russia in the 21st century? Life expectancy across urban and rural areas

Population and Development Review 47:4, 1049–1074. (2021)    

Stickley, A.; Baburin, A.; Jasilionis, D.; Krumins, J.; Martikainen, P.; Kondo, N.; Leinsalu, M.:

Economic cycles and inequalities in alcohol-related mortality in the Baltic countries and Finland in 2000–2015: a register-based study

Addiction 116:12, 3357–3368. (2021)    

Timonin, S. A.; Shkolnikov, V. M.; Andreev, E. M.; Magnus, P.; Leon, D. A.:

Evidence of large systematic differences between countries in assigning ischaemic heart disease deaths to myocardial infarction: the contrasting examples of Russia and Norway

International Journal of Epidemiology 50:6, 2082–2090. (2021)    

Danilova, I. A.; Shkolnikov, V. M.; Andreev, E. M.; Leon, D. A.:

The changing relation between alcohol and life expectancy in Russia in 1965–2017

Drug and Alcohol Review 39:7, 790–796. (2020)    

Grigoriev, P.; Bobrova, A.:

Alcohol control policies and mortality trends in Belarus

Drug and Alcohol Review 39:7, 805–817. (2020)    

Grigoriev, P.; Jasilionis, D.; Klüsener, S.; Timonin, S. A.; Andreev, E. M.; Meslé, F.; Vallin, J.:

Spatial patterns of male alcohol‐related mortality in Belarus, Lithuania, Poland and Russia

Drug and Alcohol Review 39:7, 835–845. (2020)    

Jasilionis, D.:

Commentary on Rehm et al: Alcohol control policy and changes in alcohol-related traffic harm

Addiction 115:4, 666–667. (2020)    

Jasilionis, D.; Grigoriev, P.; Stumbrys, D.; Stankūnienė, V.:

Individual and contextual determinants of male suicide in the post-communist region: the case of Lithuania

Population, Space and Place 26:8, e2372–e2372. (2020)    

Jasilionis, D.; Leon, D. A.; Pechholdová, M.:

Impact of alcohol on mortality in Eastern Europe: trends and policy responses [Editorial]

Drug and Alcohol Review 39:7, 785–789. (2020)    

Shkolnikov, V. M.; Churilova, E.; Jdanov, D. A.; Shalnova, S. A.; Nilssen, O.; Kudryavtsev, A.; Cook, S.; Malyutina, S.; McKee, M.; Leon, D. A.:

Time trends in smoking in Russia in the light of recent tobacco control measures: synthesis of evidence from multiple sources

BMC Public Health 20:378, 1–11. (2020)    

Stumbrys, D.; Telksnys, T.; Jasilionis, D.; Liutkutė-Gumarov, V.; Galkus, L.; Goštautaitė Midttun, N.; Štelemėkas, M.:

Alcohol-related male mortality in the context of changing alcohol control policy in Lithuania 2000–2017

Drug and Alcohol Review 39:7, 818–826. (2020)    

Timonin, S. A.; Jasilionis, D.; Shkolnikov, V. M.; Andreev, E. M.:

New perspective on geographical mortality divide in Russia: a district-level cross-sectional analysis, 2008-2012

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 74:2, 144–150. (2020)    

Papanova, E. K.; Shkolnikov, V. M.; Timonin, S. A.:

Osobennosti dinamiki i komponenty sniženija smertnosti v Moskve v 1989-2017 gg.

Demographic Review 6:1, 50–103. (2019)    

Shkolnikov, V. M.; Andreev, E. M.; Tursun-Zade, R.; Leon, D. A.:

Patterns in the relationship between life expectancy and gross domestic product in Russia in 2005-15: a cross-sectional analysis

The Lancet Public Health 4:4, e181–e188. (2019)    

Andreev, E. M.; Shkolnikov, V. M.:

Svjaz' meždu urovnjami smertnosti i ekonomiceskogo razvitija v Rossii i ee regionach

Demographic Review 5:1, 6–24. (2018)    

Bálint, L.; Németh, L.:

Az alkoholos halandóság szerepe a várható élettartam iskolai végzettség szerinti egyenlőtlenségeiben

Hungarian Science 11, 1666–1679. (2018)    

Cook, S.; Malyutina, S.; Kudryavtsev , A. V.; Averina, M.; Bobrova, N.; Boytsov, S.; Brage, S.; Clark, T. G.; Benavente, E. D.; Eggen, A. E.; Hopstock, L. A.; Hughes, A.; Johansen, H.; Kholmatova, K.; Kichigina, A.; Kontsevaya, A.; Kornev, M.; Leong, D.; Magnus, P.; Mathiesen, E.; McKee, M.; Morgan, K.; Nilssen, O.; Plakhov, I.; Quint, J. K.; Rapala, A.; Ryabikov, A.; Saburova, L.; Schirmer, H.; Shapkina, M.; Shiekh, S.; Shkolnikov, V. M.; Stylidis, M.; Voevoda, M.; Westgate, K.; Leon, D. A.:

Know Your Heart: rationale, design and conduct of a cross-sectional study of cardiovascular structure, function and risk factors in 4500 men and women aged 35-69 years from two Russian cities, 2015-18

Wellcome Open Research 3:67, 1–25. (2018)    

Shkolnikov, V. M.; Churilova, E.; Avdeeva, M.; Malyutina, S.; Kudryavtsev, A.; Jdanov, D. A.; Cook, S.; Leon, D. A.:

Smoking in Russia: recent trends and socio-demographic features; synthesis of evidence from multiple studies

European Journal of Public Health 28:Supplement 4, 298–298. (2018)    

Steponavičienė, L.; Vansevičiūtė, R.; Zabulienė, L.; Jasilionis, D.; Smailytė, G.:

133 (PB-034): Reproductive factors and breast cancer risk in Lithuanian women: a population-based cohort study [Abstract]

European Journal of Cancer 92:S3, S30–S30. (2018)    

Trias Llimós, S.; Kunst, A. E.; Jasilionis, D.; Janssen, F.:

The contribution of alcohol to the East-West life expectancy gap in Europe from 1990 onward

International Journal of Epidemiology 47:3, 731–739. (2018)    

Vallin, J.; Jasilionis, D.; Meslé, F.:

La transition sanitaire à l’épreuve d’une histoire tourmentée: le cas des pays baltes

Population et Sociétés 555, 1–4. (2018)    

Grigoriev, P.; Jasilionis, D.; Stumbrys, D.; Stankūnienė, V.; Shkolnikov, V. M.:

Individual- and area-level characteristics associated with alcohol-related mortality among adult Lithuanian males: a multilevel analysis based on census-linked data

PLoS One 12:7, e0181622–e0181622. (2017)    

Timonin, S. A.; Danilova, I. A.; Andreev, E. M.; Shkolnikov, V. M.:

Recent mortality trend reversal in Russia: are regions following the same tempo?

European Journal of Population 33:5, 733–763. (2017)    

Penina, O.; Jdanov, D. A.; Grigoriev, P.:

Producing reliable mortality estimates in the context of distorted population statistics: the case of Moldova

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2015-011. (2015)    

Grigoriev, P.; Meslé, F.; Vallin, J.:

Reconstruction of continuous time series of mortality by cause of death in Belarus, 1965–2010

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2012-023. (2012)    

Shkolnikova, M. A.; Aber, B.; Weinstein, M.; Kravtsova, L.; Shalnova, S. A.; Shkolnikov, V. M.; Vaupel, J. W.:

Objective sleep duration and health in elderly Russians

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2006-009. (2006)