Darja Irdam's research while affiliated with University of Cambridge and other places

... Another study shows that deindustrialization could have been another crucial determinant. Scheiring et al. (2021) fit survival and two-way fixed effects panel models covering 52 towns and 42,800 people in 1989-1995 in Hungary and 514 medium-sized towns in the European part of Russia. The results show that deindustrialization was significantly associated with male mortality in both countries, directly and indirectly mediated by adverse health behavior (alcohol abuse). ...

... Our research builds on the Privatization and Mortality (PrivMort) project, which is a multilevel study on the demographic consequences of the postsocialist economic change (Irdam et al. 2016;Scheiring et al. 2020a). Our research covers the years between 1990-2006, a period during which governments carried out the major institutional reforms related to the transition from socialism to capitalism, including privatization. ...

... Here, we add to the evidence on the lived experience of this radical industrial transformation by examining the deindustrialisation-mortality association. A large body of scholarship is devoted to the health consequences of the post-socialist transformation (see the systematic reviews by Scheiring et al., 2018aScheiring et al., , 2019. This scholarship comprises two approaches: those arguing that economic stress associated with neoliberal reforms is the main factor of the excess deaths in the 1990s (from now on, the 'dislocation-despair approach'), versus those questioning this link and emphasising the dysfunctional health habits of working-class people aggravated by the affordability of alcohol during the early transition (from now on, the 'dysfunctional culture' approach). ...

... Poisonings with metabolically toxic alcohols occur for many reasons: accidental ingestion (particularly in children), as a result of a suicide attempt or work accidents [2,3]. In Eastern Europe/Russia, it is frequently encountered due to climatic conditions and due to the increased consumption of ethanol and possibly the low economic level that requires self-cleaning [4][5][6][7][8]. According to data from the literature, the mortality risk is higher with 30% in methanol poisoning cases that associate severe acidemia and with 20% in ethylene glycol poisoning [9]. ...

... A number of studies have demonstrated associations of heavy alcohol consumption with a higher risk of liver cirrhosis, stroke, coronary artery disease, various cancers, and hypertension (22,23). Consistent with previous studies from Linxian, however, we found that alcohol consumption was associated with lower total and cancer mortality, and a nearly significant reduction in heart disease mortality as well. ...

... This despair and distress correlated with increased mortality (Kopp et al., 2007). A related stream of studies showed that mass privatisation was a critical economic policy factor behind the transformation-associated economic crisis (Hamm et al., 2012), also driving the life expectancy decline Azarova et al., 2017), and alcohol-related deaths in Russia , and in Hungary (Scheiring et al., 2018b). ...

... Past research has shown that both parental (origin) and individuals' (destination) SEP play an essential role in determining numerous health outcomes, including allostatic load, depressive symptoms, obesity, and health-related behaviours (Dennison, 2018;Gugushvili et al., 2020;Monden & de Graaf, 2013;Präg & Richards, 2019;van der Waal et al., 2017;Gugushvili et al. 2019b). However, SEP is not a unidimensional construct, and its operationalisation depends on researchers' theoretical premises and the availability of data. ...

... Гендерные аспекты табачной эпидемии в России На мужчин и женщин по-разному влияют характеристики родительской семьи, прежде всего курение матери (Gugushvili et al., 2018). В то же время во многих странах существует устойчивая тенденция сближения доли курильщиков среди мужчин и женщин. ...

... However, disagreement persists concerning the upstream factorswhat Marmot called the "causes of causes" of ill health (Marmot 2018)and the underlying causal mechanisms that link these upstream factors to downstream determinants of health. The majority of public health scholarsproponents of the dislocation-despair approachagrees that stress and despair caused by rapid social change and economic dislocation were crucial upstream factors behind these excess deaths (Azarova et al. 2017;Cornia 2000;Gavrilova et al. 2000;Scheiring et al. 2018;Stuckler et al. 2009;Walberg et al. 1998). However, othersproponents of the supplyculture approachquestion the role of economic dislocation in the postsocialist mortality crisis Deindustrialization and the postsocialist mortality crisis 4 and argue that the excess mortality was driven primarily by adverse lifestyles inherited from the socialist past that was aggravated by increased alcohol supply during the early transition years (Bhattacharya et al. 2013;Carlson and Hoffmann 2011;Cockerham et al. 2002;Cockerham 2007;Treisman 2010). ...

... Here, we add to the evidence on the lived experience of this radical industrial transformation by examining the deindustrialisation-mortality association. A large body of scholarship is devoted to the health consequences of the post-socialist transformation (see the systematic reviews by Scheiring et al., 2018aScheiring et al., , 2019. This scholarship comprises two approaches: those arguing that economic stress associated with neoliberal reforms is the main factor of the excess deaths in the 1990s (from now on, the 'dislocation-despair approach'), versus those questioning this link and emphasising the dysfunctional health habits of working-class people aggravated by the affordability of alcohol during the early transition (from now on, the 'dysfunctional culture' approach). ...