... these factors can be related tostress and substance abuse (heavy drink-ing and smoking), which in turn can belinked to the increased unemployment,worsening living conditions, and greatereconomic ... decline in death rates that occurred in the 1950sand 1960s slowed down in the 1970sand 1980s. In the 1990s death ratesactually increased in Russia and someother transition countries, includingBelarus, ... 3 and 4), industrialization andpostindustrialization (Chapter 9),income inequality and poverty (Chapters5 and 6), and health and longevity(Chapter 8). These are the most obviouslinks, and...