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Current topic: External causes of death and life expectancy in Russia

• What are the external causes of death?
• About 6 million Russians died from external causes over 20 years
• Standardized mortality rate from external causes in Russia is significantly higher than that in most developed countries
• People in Russia die from external causes at younger ages than from most other causes
• Russia’s lag behind the Western countries is still growing...
• The contribution of external causes of death in the change in life expectancy
• The contribution of external causes of death in the change in life expectancy at working ages increases
• Conclusion

World demographic barometer

• In 2010-2015 the world's average annual number of deaths will be 8.2 per thousand, whereas life expectancy will rise to 69 years
• Over the past 60 years the part of world population whose life expectancy at birth exceeds 70 years grew from 1% to 57%
• For every 1000 live births 42 children on average die before reaching the age of 1 year and 60 before the age of 5 years
• Under the conditions of mortality in 2010-2015, the probability of dying before the age of 15 years for a newborn is 7.1%, before the age of 60 years it is 22.1%
• Mortality in the world in 2008 equaled 536 deaths per 100000 people from chronic diseases and 76 from external causes

Analytical articles

• Reliability of mortality statistics (case study of deaths from injury and poisoning in Moscow)
• Evaluation of the reliability of cause-of-death coding (pilot study)
• Reserves for decrease in traffic mortality in Russia in the context of its prevention
• How to live long and stay healthy
• How economic inequality harms societies

Russian news

• Sasha, Nelly and Peter are fighting over the title of the 7 billionth inhabitant of the planet
• Natural increase in population in Russia has been observed for two months in a row
• Experts consider migration to be the way out of the demographic crisis in Russia
• Mortality among Russian men is five times higher than that in the U.S. and Europe
• The Mufti of Caucasus opposed marriages involving minors
• The average annual amount of pension by 2020 will be increased by 1.9 times
• 4.7 million Russians receive supplements to social pensions
• Ministry of Health proposals lead to lower pensions?
• More than 15 million Russians will transfer their savings to private pension funds by the end of 2011
• Russians will not be able to collect their savings from the Russian Pension Fund before July 2012
• Ministry of Health has no plans to introduce insurance fee for old age
• Moscow authorities will increase funding for schools for children with disabilities
• Losses from bad working conditions in Russia reach $ 2 trillion rubles a year
• The amount of insurance payments for companies regarding the conditions of work safety has been approved
• The labor market in Russia is paralyzed due to the economic situation
• The number of unemployed in Russia at the end of October amounted to 1.2 million
• State Duma eventually prevents the "factual deprivation" of Russian citizenship
• State Duma authorizes extradition of foreigners in the absence of documents
• 1.7 million foreigners will receive work permits in Russia in 2012
• Foreign nationals must be encouraged to work in Russia legally
• Proposal for payment of pensions to migrant workers is a rash step?
• The 1985 methods will not work to fight alcoholism in Russia, Medvedev says
• Torshin proposes a 5 year imprisonment for selling alcohol to teenagers
• HIV activists demanded the inclusion of tenofovir in the list of VED
• The number of desomorphine drug addicts in Russia approaches 250 thousand
• The number of air crash victims in Russia is growing
• Hospice staff can not get training in Russia
• The Law on Health Care which created quite a stir in Russia has been adopted by the State Duma
• The Federation Council approved the Law on Health Care
• Parents began a hunger strike because of the new Law on Health Care
• Ministry of Health promised to find places for parents in children's hospitals within a year
• Golikova qualifies the cases of refusal of medical treatment as a problem of the whole society

Eurasian news

• In Belarus, all the children born October 31, 2011, will receive a certificate of the 7 billionth inhabitant
• The population of Armenia increased by 0.2% in nine months
• Ukraine has lost a city with more than 1 million inhabitants
• Belstat created a portrait of a statistically average Belarusian man
• The average citizen of Belarus is a 40-year-old Minsk-based married woman with a child
• More than 700 thousand people die in Ukraine every year
• The number of marriages and divorces is growing in Belarus
• The State Programme on improving the demographic situation in Armenia in 2012 has been approved
• Belarus is ahead of all CIS countries in Human Development Index
• Ukraine is ranked 76th in Human Development Index
• The level of education in Armenia is one of the highest in the region
• One third of pensioners in Kyrgyzstan receive a pension above the subsistence level
• Amounts of child benefits in Belarus increased since November by 29.9%
• Azerbaijan is going to adopt the State Program on large family assistance
• Uzbekistan plans to create additionally almost a million jobs
• A sample survey of households on employment problems will be launched in November in Belarus
• Divided families in Ukraine and Russia should have the right to live in both countries without registration
• Belarusian civil servants are no longer allowed to use the Pole's Card (Karta Polaka)
• Half a million Moldovans have gone abroad for work
• Outflow of labor force from Belarus may take the form of that in the 90s?
• Migrants from Tajikistan will be arriving in St. Petersburg by preselection
• The amount of remittances from Russia to Kyrgyzstan rose by 37% in 9 months
• Registration of labor migration in Moldova will be computerized
• A single migration center for the citizens of the PRC will be created in Tajikistan
• Mortality from oncologic diseases in Belarus decreased by 5% over the past 10 years
• Increase in the number of STD in Armenia is directly related to labor migration
• Every seventh child in Kyrgyzstan has a developmental lag

World news

• India announced the birth of a 7-billionth inhabitant
• China has around 49000 people over 100 years of age
• Fertility in most Arab countries accounts to less than 3 children per woman
• The Latvian government does not care about demographic situation?
• 40% of Lithuanian residents now live worse than ten years ago
• EU needs new integration model?
• 49.1 million people in the U.S. live below the poverty line
• Assets of older Americans are 47 times higher than assets of youth
• The Lithuanian government will bring back to pre-crisis level only old-age pensions
• ILO says that the job situation in the world is “dangerous"
• Forecasts for GDP and unemployment in the U.S. by 2013 have become much worse
• EU may fine Spain with € 1 billion for the high unemployment rate
• The main objective of Israeli authorities in relations with the Diaspora is relocating most Jews to Israel
• More than a million refugees returned to Bosnia and Herzegovina after the war
• Immigration crackdown threatens bumper U.S. apple harvest
• Russian-speaking youth will learn Estonian in Estonian families and language camps
• The Council of Europe proposes Estonia to soften the language policy
• U.S. have got an "historic opportunity" to win the AIDS epidemic?
• U.S. prohibited to scare smokers
• Medicaments surpassed heroin by the number of overdose deaths in the U.S.
• The number of British children taking antipsychotic drugs has doubled in 10 years
• Infant mortality in Israel rose by 21%
• Vaccination against cervical cancer will be mandatory for American boys
• UNICEF denied reports of a polio epidemic in Madagascar
• The British complain about doctors more often
• Scientists managed to "switch off" the mechanism of aging
• IQ in adolescence can vary
• Climatologists call on the mankind to start adapting to inevitable climate changes

Newspapers write about ...

• "Moscow News”, "Den”, “FINANCE.UA” and “The Washington Post” about the 7 billionth inhabitant on Earth
• "BBC" and "Ogonek" about the world population
• "Moscow News" about political incorrectess of the overpopulation of the Earth
• “Obozrevatel.com” about the demographic situation in the countries of the world
• "RBC" about new megacities
• "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" and "RBK daily” about population projections for Russia
• "Ogonek" about reanimation of extinct cities
• "Argumenty i Fakty" about the demographic problems of Moldova
• “Regions.ru” about the church and surrogacy
• "Ogonek" about the baby-box
• “Slon.Ru» about the lack of women
• “La Stampa” about the lack of women as a reason for kidnapping
• "RIA" Novosti", "Komsomolskaya Pravda" and "Mednovosti.Ru" about the law on health care
• “Vz.ru” and "Novye izvestiya" about the deaths and injuries of children in road accidents
• “Liter.kz” about infant mortality in Kazakhstan
• “MIGnews” about countries comfortable for giving birth
• "Izvestiya" and “Forbes” about social integration of migrant workers in Russia
• "Kommersant" about extremism and migration
• "Izvestiya" and "Kommersant" about Russian for migrants
• "Radio" Liberty" about gender imbalance in Tajikistan
• “REGNUM” about the future of the Schengen zone
• "Vlast" about the views of Marine Le Pen
• "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" and "Trud-7" about interethnic relations in Russia
• "Russian Service "Voice of America" about Russian nationalism
• “Regions.ru” and “Polit.ru" about the "fifth point"
• "Komsomolskaya Pravda" about uselessness of guest workers
• "Moscow News" about Muslims of Moscow
• "Moscow News" about "Russian" multiculturalism
• "Zerkalo" about problems with repatriation of Meskhetian Turks to Georgia
• “REGNUM” about problems with relocation of Laks
• “Stratfor” and “Global Post” about the Eurasian Union
• "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" about emptying Russian territories
• "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" about the population of Luxembourg
• "Ogonek" about the possible export of pensioners
• "Vedomosti" about the system of social security in China
• "Belarus segodnya" about unemployment in Belarus
• "RBC" about labour market and education

Recent publications

• Statistics of Road Traffic Accidents in Europe and North America
• World Mortality Report 2007
• Alcoholism and social and moral health of society
• World Health Statistics 2011
• Mobilization of ethnic communities in modern Russia
• Through the pages of magazines “Narodonaseleniye” ("Population") and “Uroven zhizni naseleniya regionov Rossii” ("Living standards in the regions of Russia")
• Contents of the journal “Population”

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