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The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access published online on February 13, 2007
The European Journal of Public Health, doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckm006
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

Editorial

The East-West Health Gap in Europe—what are the causes?

Witold Zatonski

Director of the Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Division, Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology 5 Roentgena Str., 02-781 Warsaw, Poland

Correspondence: Witold Zatonski, Director of the Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Division, Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, 5 Roentgena Str., 02-781 Warsaw, Poland, tel/fax: +48 22 643 92 34, e-mail: canepid@coi.waw.pl

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One of the biggest challenges facing Europe is the ‘East-West Health Gap’. Historically, the transition from infectious to chronic diseases came first in Western Europe before occurring in Eastern Europe. However, after World War II, it went much more smoothly in the Former Socialistic Economy (FSE) countries. A quicker increase in life expectancy in the East (e.g. in Poland life expectancy at birth increased . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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