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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. |