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Current topic: Cancer mortality in Russia

• A cancer transition?

• Mortality from neoplasms and life expectancy

• Age and sex characteristics of cancer mortality

• Cancer mortality by its main localizations: Russia and the EU

• Cancer mortality on the map of Russia

• 65 percent of deaths from malignant neoplasms could be prevented

• On the road  to reducing morbidity and mortality from neoplasms

• Links to current topic

• Topics of previous issues

World demographic barometer

• Global trends in cancer morbidity and mortality

• Each year in the world nearly 8 million people (13% of total deaths) die of cancer; 30% of these deaths could be prevented

• In OECD countries every fourth person dies of cancer

• Japan is the best equipped country in tomography machines, while the U.S. performs the most scans

• In the OECD the average survival rate during the 5 years following the detection of colorectal cancer has increased to 61%, of cervical cancer to 66%, and  of breast cancer to 84%  

• The extent of prevention and early diagnosis of cancer varies by social group

Through the eyes of the analysts

• Factors distorting the pattern of causes of death among Russia’s working age population

• Age features of preventable mortality in Russia

• An analysis of the incidence of malignant tumors  among the population of the Samara region in 2000-2010 and a forecast till 2025

• Statistics of malignant tumors of the female reproductive organs

Take care of women!

• Public discussion continues about the legitimacy of abortion in Russia

• UNAIDS on sustainable progress in the fight against AIDS

In the vastness of Russia

• Natural increase in January-October was 16.8 thousand people

• Infant mortality in Chechnya is twice as high as in Russia

• Civil Registry Offices will transmit more detailed information to Rosstat

• Russia sees increase in number of large families

• The Federation Council approves increase in minimum wage by nearly 350 rubles

• Pensions in October 2013 rose by 3.1%

• Duma extends deadline for choosing funded pension till the end of 2015

• Co-financing of pensions in the Russian Federation will continue under the old rules, but not for everyone

• Ministry of Labor calls the point system an improved accounting system for pension rights  

• The government has proposed to spend the maternity capital on renting state apartments

• Has the maternity capital contributed to a significant increase in the birth rate of second and subsequent children?

• Government proposes to extend maternity capital program till 2025

• Almost 85% of Russian orphans have living parents

• Can the orphan problem be eliminated in 7-8 years?

• Over half of adopted children in 2012 were returned

• Over 20 thousand children to get places in kindergartens by year’s end

• Russian alimony payers owe their children 92 billion rubles

• Ministry of Labor to set up registry of Russia’s disabled

• Starting in 2016 Russians will begin to receive electronics IDs

• Human Rights Council proposes to expand the list of places for registering citizens

• Russia wouldn’t benefit from introducing visas with CIS countries, says FMS head

• The Russian People’s Front forms working group on labor migration

• In 2013 the FMS has forbidden entry to 380 thousand foreign nationals

• Thousands of foreigners have checked the FMS internet site to see if they are allowed to enter Russia

• The government proposes to tighten the rules for hiring foreigners

• Moscow employers want to hire over one million foreign nationals

• Moscow subway may see checkpoints for migrant workers

• Four Russian universities to teach migrants the proper use of Russian speech

• The number of HIV cases in Russia has reached 780 thousand

• Over half of people with HIV in Moscow are residents there

• Russia fights alcoholism by raising the price of vodka

• Fewer and fewer Russians support the ban on smoking

• Drug addicts evading treatment face fines or arrest

• The population of Russia is insufficiently informed about cancer

• Putin signs law banning the advertising of abortion

• Restrictions must be put on surrogacy according to social indicators

• Russia unwavering on free health care is firm

Eurasian panorama

• The population of Belarus on November 1 was 9.4672  thousand people

• The population of Moldova has been steadily declining

• Over the next 20 years urbanization in Kazakhstan will increase by 10%

• Two thirds of Belarusian households have a per capita income of less than $370

• A third of Armenia’s population is officially recognized as poor

• The minimum wage in Uzbekistan will grow by 5%

• The average salary of Belarusian doctors is $666

• Social payments in Ukraine are on schedule

• Belarus considers abolishing free higher education

• Baby boom in Kazakhstan could lead to a rise in unemployment after 2020

• Economic integration of Moldova into the EU will contribute to job creation and improved quality of life

• Will association with the EU increase unemployment in Ukraine?

• Azerbaijan and EU sign agreement on visa liberalization

• The EU will not compromise on visa regime issues with Ukraine

• Kirgiz government creates special group on labor migration

• Labor migration from Kirgizia could turn into a social disaster

• 300 thousand Belarusians are employed outside the country

• Moldovan diaspora demands apology from deputy insulting 700,000 migrant workers

• Russia’s FMS bans entry of nearly 40 thousand Kirgiz citizens

• Tajik women ask that their husbands be deported from Russia

• One in ten Moldovans working abroad illegally

• UN High Commission for Refugees to allocate over $200,000 for Georgian families

• Georgian authorities decide to double benefits for refugees

• Romanian recognized as state language of Moldova

• Kirgiz parliament concerned about the quality of Russian language teaching in schools

• The main causes of death in Ukraine have been named

• Maternal and child mortality remains high in Tajikistan

World news

• By 2130 Bulgaria will have no ethnic Bulgarians

• UNFPA publishes world population report devoted to teen pregnancy

• Minimum wage in Estonia continues to rise

• One in five children in New York malnourished

• Bulgaria and Armenia: the most “suffering countries” in 2012

• Swedes will be able to adopt Russian orphans only after signing a bilateral agreement

• Estonian labor activity is concentrated around five cities

• Turkey and EU reach readmission agreement

• UK population concerned about the level of immigration from Bulgaria and Romania

• Germany and France to follow UK’s lead in introducing restrictions on migrants from the “new” EU countries

• Tehran concerned about the extent of illegal immigration

• Saudi Arabia has deported more than 100,000 Ethiopians

• Residents of Serbia protest against resettlement of refugees from Asia and Africa

• European Commission calls on EU countries to accept more refugees from Syria

• Syrian refugees in Turkey live on $40 a month

• Nearly a thousand people killed in Iraq in November

• Brazil introduces free drugs for people with HIV

• 80 years ago America abolished prohibition

• Every year on British roads 10 thousand accidents are caused by drunken drivers

• Belgium plans to adopt law on euthanasia for minors

• Catholic Church in U.S. sued for ban on abortion

• Obama will buy health insurance on the Internet

• Croatian citizens vote against gay marriage in referendum

• Europe’s oldest resident, Italian Emma Morano, turns 114

• Saudi man divorced wife because of a cigarette

The newspapers write about

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on Putin’s “May decrees”

• “Meditsinskaya Gazeta” and “Gazeta.ru” on the results of mass health examinations

• “Ekspert” on oncoimmunology

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on the ban on advertising of abortions

• “Vedomosti” on the maternity capital

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on the number of migrants in Russia

• “Kommersant” on “half-visas”

• “Kommersant” on banning entry to Russia for 380 thousand people

• “Izvestiya” on migration control in the metro

• “Vedomosti” on the stretchability of the rubber apartment law

• “Kommersant” and “Vedomosti” on ghettos for builders and street cleaners

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on special agents to work in migrant neighborhoods

• “Focus.ua” on a “vertical” solution to interethnic problems

• “Kommersant” on the consequences of compulsory health insurance for foreign workers

• “Gazeta.ru” on migration, AIDS and tuberculosis

• “Moldavskie Vedomosti” on migration from Moldova

• “Slon.ru” on migration and elections in Moldova

• “Vecherniy Bishkek” on immigration policy in Kirgizia and Russia

• “Vecherniy Bishkek” on the criminogenic consequences of migrants returning from Russia to Kirgizia

• “The Independent” on the requests of Tajik women to return their migrant husbands

• “Ekho” on deporting illegals from Azerbaijan

• “FINANCE.UA” on the intentions of Ukrainians to emigrate

• “Vedomosti” on apartment-financed opportunities for emigration

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on the problems of the Schengen

• “Gazeta.ru” on the sources of Muscovites’ dislike of migrants

• “Vedomosti” on regulating internal migration

• “Gazeta.Ru” on the resettlement of compatriots to the Caucasus

• “Ekspert” on the outflow of Russians from the Northern Caucasus

• “Kommersant” and “Finmarket” on poverty and inequality in Russia

• “Radio Svoboda” on money and regional social policy

• “Vedomosti” on pension reforms in OECD countries

• “Zaman” on suicides in Turkey

• “Fakty” on mortality from the cold in Great Britain

• “Kommersant” on the anniversary of the Great Famine  in Ukraine

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on a “road map” of demographic statistics

• “Polit.ru” on Russian as an official language of the EU

• “El Mundo” on a possible ban on Islam in Angola

• “Atlantico” on Sharia in Afghanistan

• “La Repubblica” on female bishops in the Church of England

• “Vatican Insider” and “Atlantico” on crimes motivated

• “Slon.ru” on an “artificial womb”

• “Slate” on the influence of women on men

Read books and magazines

• The First World War, the Civil War and Recovery: Russia’s national income in 1913-1928

• Ethnic migration and ethnic demographic processes in the east of Russia in the late 19^th   to the early 21^st century

• World Health Care Report 2013

• Demography.  A textbook

• Health Care in Russia 2013

• Through the pages of the journals “Aktualnye problem Evropy” (“Europe’s Current Problems”)

• Contents of the “International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family”

Profession: researcher

• 60 years since the death of Sergei Alexandrovich Novoselskiy

• Remembering Heldur Palli

• 115 years since the birth of Alfred Sauvy and 50 years since the publication of his book “Malthus and the two Marxes”

• Success within 25 years or a disaster?

• Second conference of the users of the « Generation and Gender Survey»

New in the reading room

• S.A. Novoselskiy.  The impact of war on population processes

Student page

• Selected essays.  I. Kashnitskiy.  The transformation of marriage and partnership relations in developed countries

• Demographer Graduates in the press