Timeline for Is this graph of life expectancy pre and post Chernobyl accurate?
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| Dec 4, 2023 at 19:31 | comment | added | Evan Carroll | I mean the dissolution of the soviet union caused all kinds of things that correlate with increased morality, like drug use, lack of healthcare, and nutrition deficiency. | |
| Nov 12, 2012 at 10:05 | history | edited | vartec | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 11, 2012 at 10:16 | comment | added | Golden Cuy | Just to clarify, while the graphs are from the paper cited, the conclusion that deaths increased due to causes unattributable to radiation, rather than causes attributable to radiation is your own, right? | |
| Nov 9, 2012 at 19:13 | comment | added | Briguy37 | Looking at the graph for Russia from '86 to the peaks, the approximate increase in deaths per 10,000 people were: Infectious: about 4; Neo: about 8; Cardio: about 25; Other: about 4; Violent deaths: about 12 (assuming that includes homicides). Thus, the total increase for all categories is about 53 per 10,000, for which violent deaths only amount to 23% of the increase (or 28% if homicides were separate from violent deaths). We need more info to determine what of the remaining 77% increase is caused by Chernobyl (weakening immune systems?), alcohol, revolution, or something else. | |
| Nov 9, 2012 at 17:44 | comment | added | Henry | Try AP for " drinking, which the report says roughly doubled in Russia between 1987 and 1994 — from the equivalent of about 5 liters (1.3 gallons) of pure alcohol annually to about 10.5 liters (2.8 gallons)" and "drinking caused more than half of deaths among Russians aged 15 to 54 in the turbulent era following the Soviet collapse". | |
| Nov 9, 2012 at 16:14 | comment | added | vartec | @Henry: wasn't it ridiculously high even during existence of USSR? | |
| Nov 9, 2012 at 15:39 | comment | added | Henry | Alcohol consumption also increased with the collapse of the Soviet Union | |
| Nov 9, 2012 at 14:33 | comment | added | vartec | @DanNeely: as documented here ;-) | |
| Nov 9, 2012 at 14:31 | comment | added | Shauna | @DanNeely Hulk smash! | |
| Nov 9, 2012 at 14:05 | comment | added | Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight | As comic books have repeatedly demonstrated, radiation is one way to create super villains and animal monsters. Super villain and monster rampages kill lots of people violently. Therefor radiation causes a massive increase in violent deaths. | |
| Nov 9, 2012 at 13:31 | history | answered | vartec | CC BY-SA 3.0 |