There is a growing body of evidence suggesting that negative health lifestyles are the principal social determinants of the mortality crisis in the former socialist states. Little is known, however, about health lifestyles in Central Asia, where the downturn in life expectancy was also experienced. This paper examines health lifestyles in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in order to fill an important ...

a i d h t H i o O ur employees are our greatest asset!” is a slogan you often see emblazoned in hallways, boardrooms, and lunchrooms throughout comanies in America. But what does that truly ean to the individual employee? Emloyees in the United States work longer ours and have less vacation time than heir European counterparts, while surassing them in productivity. In fact, toay, half of all Am...