title: Health and Environment in Central and Eastern Europe
abstract: First of all, I would like to make a significant distinction between geographical and political terms -- Eastern Europe. If we look at the map of Europe, it is easy to notice that a little more than half of European territory belongs to the Soviet Union. This is of cause the Eastern part of Europe. From that point of view such countries as Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary or East Germany cannot be also located in Eastern Europe. From a geographical point of view these countries belong to Central 