International Centre for Health & Society, UCL
2004 Seminar Series
You are invited to attend:
Monday 10 January 5.00pm (followed by drinks at 6pm)
Speaker: Professor Michael Murphy, LSE
Title: 'Recent widening Russian educational mortality differentials'
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Abstract
This seminar examines trends in the relationships between educational
level and adult mortality in Russia during the societal
transformation. A convenience cohort based on survey respondents'
information about age, vital status and educational level of close
relatives was used to construct mortality rates by educational level
in period 1980-2001, using modified indirect demographic techniques.
The mortality advantage of better educated men and women in 1980
increased substantially by 2001. In 1980, life expectancy at birth
for university educated men was 3 years greater than for men with
elementary education only, but widened to 11years by 2001. This
reflects not only declining life expectancy in less educated men but
also an improvement among better educated men. Similar patterns were
seen in women. The well-documented mortality increases seen in
Russia after 1990 have predominantly affected less educated men and
women, whilst the mortality of persons with university education has
improved, resulting in a sharp increase in educational-level
mortality differentials.
Michael Murphy is Professor of Demography at LSE. His interests
include the demography of families, household and kin in developed
societies; mortality and morbidity trends in ageing societies and
demographic methodologies. This seminar is based on work in
collaboration with colleagues at International Centre for Health and
Society, UCL and Strathclyde University.
Ms Patricia Crowley
Dept of Epidemiology & Public Health, UCL
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