One of the most debated issues in health for the last few years is why population and life expectancy have been declining in Russia. Several papers have put this down to increasing cardiovascular disease associated with drastic societal transition.
An early JAMA article is available here
Becker and Posner discussed population-enhancing measures proposed by Putin in June. There is some good data on Russia including a very detailed household panel that Baltagi and others have worked on a lot
http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2006/06/
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Have a look at Economic reform and mortality in the former Soviet Union:A study of the suicide epidemic in the 1990s, Elizabeth Brainerd, EER 2001,
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