CHANGES IN POPULATION HETEROGENEITY UNDER THE HEALTH CRISIS IN UKRAINE

The death rates of regional subpopulations, accounting for unobserved heterogeneity in their distribution of deaths were analyzed. There was found that force of mortality alter the frailty distributions of regional subpopulations. At the end of the health crisis in Ukraine regional subpopulations of East and South are less heterogeneous in their distribution of deaths in comparison with the population from North and West. Changes in the frailty distribution resulted in lower standardized life expectancy of about half a year for the population of North. The subpopulations of East and South manifest the lowest standardized life expectancy. The absence of any effect among West subpopulation supports the assumption that the power of health crisis influence on the frailty distribution in regional subpopulations depends of population epigenetical background.