Central and Eastern Europe in Transition: Public Policy and Social Conditions: Crisis in Mortality, Health and Nutrition; Economies in Transition Studies; Regional Monitoring Report No.2

The report highlighs three factors in this phenomenon: widespread poverty, social stress and the erosion of preventive health services. The mortality and health crisis experienced by most Eastern European countries after the fall of the communism has not hit the traditionally most vulnerable groups, such as children or the elderly. Instead, it has taken its toll on male adults.