An Analysis of Eberstadt's Article 'Drunken Nation: Russia's Depopulation Bomb'

In 1990, the fall of the communist regime affected the region. This fall changed the demographics of the region and somehow by 2016 it changed not only the landscape but the population as well. This change took place on the macro level and it also affected the micro level. Statistics show that the live birth ratio dropped throughout the years, that only 7,569 babies were born in 2016 versus 6,464 deaths. These numbers show that this group is headed for extinction. As social workers, an intervention is needed to ensure the continuation of this group of people. Studies are taking at present time to find out the cause and effect of this drastic change of population.

In their study on the trends in county mortality and cross-county mortality disparities in the United States, Ezzati et al. found out that there have been huge variations in the mortality patterns over time. The mortality declined significantly for both sexes specifically due to decreases in cardiovascular mortalities, which included stroke and heart disease. The researchers found that the overall life expectancy in the United States increased from 74 to 80 years for women while that of men increased from 67 to 74 years of age. Further, from 1961 to 1983, the differences in death rates among or across different counties fell. There was a decline or stagnation in mortality among 19 percent of female and 4 percent of male population. Men lived 9.0 years longer in the

Factories and many workplaces were developing efficient ways to complete tasks that did not require the masculine “men” strength. As the country and world was advancing, so were researches that helping people live longer than before. “With life span lengthened to nearly seventy-five years it is no longer either

The purpose of the 2001 article “Why do men die earlier?” by Bridget Murray-Law was to figure out why men usually don’t take care of their health as well as women, and why they are more likely to dies earlier than women. Their hypothesis was that it was the reason for men dying earlier than women is partially genetics and partially the socialization of the male gender.

The rising of the Decembrist Russia was due to a confusion over the next succession. In 1825, Alexander I died suddenly. Alexander 's younger brother, Constantine, who was next in line, had no desire to assume the throne of such a burdensome empire, so he gave his right of succession to his brother Nicholas. Nicholas, however, had been left unaware of the official details of the change and on learning of Alexander 's death he proclaimed Constantine emperor at St. Petersburg, at the same time as Constantine in Warsaw was proclaiming Nicholas. For nearly three weeks in December 1825 the throne remained vacant.

“Demography is destiny,” said Dr. Sander, spewing an old slogan all of them had long ago come to loathe. “A hard truth, isn’t it?” His expression hardened. “I think we’re probably done here.”

The social security article has shown that a male that is aged 65 years has a lower life expectancy than women. https://www.ssa.gov/. This is shown by the statistic that I researched using the social security article; A 65 year old man has a life expectancy of 84.3 where as a women aged 65 has a life expectancy of 86.6. https://www.ssa.gov/. This may be because women develop health illnesses later than men in their life. http://content.time.com/. Research has proved this by the Time article stating that women develop cardiovascular disease when they are about 70 or 80 years old where as men develop these illnesses when they are 50 or 60 years old. http://content.time.com/. The delay in the disease may be because of their iron deficiency in comparison to men. http://content.time.com/. This iron deficiency is common in young women aged 20 or 30 in which the iron deficiency difference between the men and women is higher for women because of menstruation taking place in a women or it may be because of a women’s genetic inheritance. http://content.time.com/. A woman has two X chromosomes whereas a man has only one X chromosome. Instead of having two X

However, one man's decrease is another's allure. That, at any rate, is one of the confident messages contained in Dr Richard G Bribiescas' book, How Men Age: What Evolution Reveals About Male Health and Mortality, as of late distributed by Princeton University Press. Bribiescas - teacher of human sciences at Yale - doesn't deny the progressions that happen to every one of us, yet puts another cast on them.

Within death rates and the factors that affect them, I hypothesize that death rates of both males and females will be higher in the younger populations before 1950 than after because of the medical advances we have made in technology, the wars before 1950, and other outlying factors such as lower awareness of the people, and widespread epidemic-level diseases. I additionally hypothesize that due to medical

Decline in women in 2000 started when they were 35 years old and males when they were 45 years old. This 10 year difference could mean those women’s stress increases when they are 35 years old, because their children are in school and more responsibility is put on the mother, because society deems women as the ones that should nurture and help their children intellectually grow. In 2000 males and females both started to decline in population when they reached the age cohort 45 to 49, and in 2010 it was the 50 to 54 age cohort. This could have stemmed from the healthier life styles that are portrayed by

The life in the U.S compared to that of the Soviet Union during the 60’s is an amazing phenomenon of a declining life expectancy in a highly developed country just like in the case of the Soviet Union during the 60’s down to the 70’s. The result of the life expectancy rate in the Soviet Union shows that there is only a small part to true informal changes in the state of living. However, the weak point of the measures of life expectancy is of vital importance, although another factor is the unfavourable selection of risks by war, thereby making a less valuable comparison between the international and inter temporal. Another factor is the logical difference between period and the measurement of the group of people sharing a common factor

Lifestyle factors have considerable effects among people, it affects the health of people and it causes many social and biological consequences, such as an alcohol consumption and smoking. It has been evidence that people who are smoking, they are more vulnerable to the respiratory tract and cancer diseases. Firstly, the burden of morbidity and mortality are related to the harmful effects of alcohol consumption and most parts of the world have considered these issues (Rehm et al.,2009). Alcohol use has many crucial health effects and some social repercussions. Some of these health consequences have direct effects among women and men and some others have an indirect effect on children, as a result of alcohol consumption, it may lead to liver cirrhosis, myocardial infarction and some types of cancer. Moreover, women who are pregnant and

Median age, fertility and morality rates are all contributing attributes that pose both advantages and challenges towards the people of Australia and Japan.[Topic Sentence] An ageing population is a widespread aberration that ultimately provides severe insinuation of both developed and developing countries. This phenomenon entails issues regarding the rapid shifts of the working-age population, children and seniors [1]. As such, this process is predominately determined by the decline of fertility, mortality rates at older ages and median age expansion [2].[Background Information] It is a common misconception to associate ageing population with extensive medical and social care expenses, as services are becoming privatized, preventing financial damages for the government in the 21st century [Scope][3].

The Demographic Transition Theory consists of three phases according to Figure 4.1 in Kunkel’s “Global Aging: Comparative Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course”. The first stage or the Pre-Transition Phase shows us how the birth and death rate are relatively high

The Case-Deaton article also sparked debates among academics, both inside and outside of the population health field. Critics of the paper have brought to light the flaws in the way Case and Deaton analyzed the data. Many scientists have pointed out that Case and Deaton have failed to conduct age-adjustment in the data. (Singal 2015) As Hummer and Hamilton have proven in their book, age