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Mortality in Germany
In the postwar period, the former GDR developed a comprehensive health
care system that made steady advances in reducing infant mortality and
extending life expectancy for both men and women. Early in the postwar
period, life expectancy in some categories was actually longer for East
Germans than for West Germans, and infant mortality was lower until 1980.
However, starting in the mid-1970s, West Germany began to register longer
life expectancies in every age-group, and after 1980 the infant mortality
rate dropped below that of East Germany. In 1988 infant mortality in West
Germany was 7.6 per 1,000 live births and 8.1 per 1,000 in East Germany.
The better health and longevity of West Germans probably stemmed from
an increased interest in quality of life issues, personal health, and
the environment. East Germans, in contrast, suffered the ill effects of
the Soviet model of a traditional rust-belt industrial economy, with minimal
concern for workers' safety and health and wanton disregard of the need
to protect the environment. Improving environmental conditions and a more
health-conscious way of living should gradually reduce remaining health
differences among Germans. In mid-1995 unified Germany had an estimated
mortality rate of about eleven per 1,000, and life expectancy was estimated
at 76.6 years (73.5 years for males and 79.9 years for females). The major
causes of death were the same as those of other advanced countries.
- Population
- Immigration
- Women In Society
- Marriage
- Fertility
- Mortality
- Age-Gender Distribution
- Social Structure
- Religion
- Urbanization
- Geography (lands and
capitals, climate)
- Society (population, religion,
marriage, urbanization, social structure, immigration)
- Education (elementary,
junior, senior, vocational, higher)
- Economy (the Economic
Miracle, financial system, Bundesbank, business culture)
- Politics (government,
the Chancellor, the President, parties, Bundestag)
- Mass Media (newspapers,
radio and TV)
- Armed Forces (army,
navy, air forces, police)
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