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The impact of these measures on death rates
surpassed all expectations (12). In the period from 1984 to 1987
life expectancy at birth increased from 61.7 to 64.9 years for men, and
from 73 to 74.4 years for women (13).
Such a sharp rise in life expectancy over a
period of just three years had never before been witnessed in the entire
postwar history of the world’s developed countries.
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