title: [Health status in Europe and its projection up to the year 2000. 2. The female population].
abstract: The life expectancy of women in the posttotalitarian Central and Eastern European countries varies at present round 75 years, in Western and Northern Europe it is between 78 and 82 years. Linear extrapolation of these data to the year 2000 indicates that at the onset of the next century the life expectancy of women in Western Europe will be round 83 years, in the posttotalitarian countries round 76 years. In Western Europe the premature mortality of women due to cardiovascular diseases (ischaemic heart disease, cerebrovascular diseases), of the respiratory, digestive, nervous, urogenital system is steadily declining. The mortality rate from neoplasms declines only slightly and in some types of cancer (lungs, mammary glands) it is even rising. Round the year 2000 the cause of premature deaths of 60% of women in Western Europe will be neoplasms, while premature deaths caused by cardiovascular diseases will not amount to more than 20%. In the totalitarian part of Europe since 1970 the premature mortality of women due to cardiovascular diseases (mainly ischaemic heart disease), neoplasms (mainly cancer of the lungs and breast) and cirrhosis of the liver rose steadily. It is likely that in this part of Europe also after the year 2000 premature deaths from cardiovascular diseases and neoplasms will remain the main causes of early deaths and together will account for almost 70% female deaths.
authors.affiliation: Ustav preventívnej a klinickej medicíny, Bratislava.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ginter
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005060:Europe / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D008017:Life Expectancy / Q000639:trends; D009026:Mortality / Q000639:trends; D016387:Women's Health