Education and survival in the Czech Republic

Abstract

In the Czech Republic there have been recorded diametrical trends of life expectancy at birth. While after World War II it was characterized by mortality decrease, from the mid-1960s it was deteriorated and at the beginning of the 1990s up to the present it appeared a new decline in mortality. Although the communist regime provided free health care to everybody and salaries were equalized, the differences in the lenght of life according to the educational attainment are obvious at all generations