Issue 4 (57)
| URBAN POPULATION MORTALITY CAUSES IN THE RSFSR IN THE LATE 1950s | |||
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| Year | 2017 | Number | 4 (57) |
| Pages | 63-67 | Type | scientific article |
| UDC | 94(470) “1950/1959”:314.4 | BBK | 63.3(2)63+60.723.4 |
| Authors | Aralovets Natalia A. |
Topic | RUSSIA IN 20–21ST CENTURIES: SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC PROCESSES |
| Summary | The article presents the results of the 1950s archive statistical records study with regard to the changes of the RSFSR urban population mortality causes. It demonstrated the decrease of mortality rates and the growth of life expectancy rate of the urban population during that period. It is noted that the male mortality was higher than the female rate in practically all age groups with the exception of the elderly people (60 years and over) where the female mortality rate was higher. The highest male mortality rate was observed in the active working age of 40–59 years. By the end of the 1950s there was a growing influence of internal causes of the population mortality, i.e. the internal morphosis-driven factors. This effect was more apparent in the RSFSR urban communities. The article describes the changes in the main classes of the urban population mortality causes manifested primarily in the growth of the population mortality caused by cardiovascular and oncologic diseases. In the middle of the 1950s the latter became the leading mortality cause of the urban population. The highest mortality rates were related to various cardiovascular diseases including atherosclerotic cardiosclerosis, arteriosclerosis, and other vascular brain damage. Water, air, and soil contamination alongside with other factors contributed to the growth of oncologic diseases, particularly stomach cancer, as well as lungs, bronchus, and pleura cancer. At the same time there was a decrease in the formerly leading mortality causes, such as the respiratory diseases, diseases of the digestive system, and the highly infectious diseases. These changes reflected the formation of the new mortality type. These phenomena matched similar developments in the Western countries. However the formation of the new mortality type in the Russian cities took place under the negative effect of the generally unhealthy living conditions of the majority of the population, as well as under the effect of the physical and moral-and-psychological strain, including the stress of the war years. Nonetheless, the cardiovascular and oncologic diseases remained the leading mortality cause classes in the RSFSR cities in the end of the 1950s. All this evidenced the beginning of the epidemiological and, in general, the demographic transition in the Russian cities during those years. | ||
| Keywords | Urban population of the RSFSR, type of mortality, the leading classes of causes of death, epidemiological transition, demographic transition | ||
| References |
Араловец Н. А. Городская семья в России, 1927–1959 гг. Тула, 2009. |
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