life expectancy

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… mid-1970s, and the gap continued to widen in the 1980s for all major causes of death, particularly cardiovascular diseases. The situation is worse in the Newly Independent States than in the CCEE, and worst in the Central Asian countries (Nanda et al. 1993). There is no single reason for the health gap - Walberg (1998) points out - but contributory factors include the increasing prevalence of major risk factors in the quality of environment.