Mortality effect of selected diseases on the life expectancy indicators in Czechoslovakian population.

Czechoslovakia is contemporarily ranged between the countries with mostly unfavourable indicators of national health. The life expectancy (LE) values at birth as achieved by 1988 in men were 67.85 years and 75.42 years in women, respectively. In Czechoslovakia this indicator is averagely 4 and more years lower than that of industrially developed countries. Such a low czechoslovakian LE value is conditioned with mainly higher mortality to the ischemic heart disease, vascular brain disease as well as malignancies and traumas. In men, the mortality due to the ischemic heart disease (IHD) is accounted for the Le decrease to 3.23 years, and 2.57 years in women, respectively. Similarly, there is a LE decrease to 3.05 years in men, and to 2.54 years in women due to the malignancies. When the IHD mortality decrease may be achieved up to 30% against the status of 1985-87, it may be resulted in LE prolongation to 0.84 in men, and 0.66 in women, respectively. The similar decrease in mortality to vascular brain disease and atherosclerosis may have resulted in LE prolongation to 0.51 in men, and 0.72 years in women. The mortality decrease to cancers for 30% may have been resulted in LE prolongation for 0.84 years in men, and for 0.73 years in women, respectively. The attempt on how to prolong the LE is resulting in fast and responsible measures of primary prevention and partly in those of secondary prevention.