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Current topic: Global demographic challenges to health care

• The new epidemiological model and health care

• The epidemiological transition and the increase in life expectancy

• The global dimension of the epidemiological transition

• The second epidemiological revolution

• And what about Russia?

• Health care and family planning

• Health care and aging

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

Russian demographic barometer

Demographic results of the first half of 2015 (part I)

• Russia’s population on July 1, 2015 totaled 146.3 million, a 0.03% increase since the beginning of the year

• In January-June 2015 natural decrease doubled, and net migration decreased in comparison with the same period of 2014

• The number of deaths and the crude death rate increased in comparison with the corresponding period last year

• Mortality from external causes continued to decline, but from other major causes increased

• Mortality from external causes has decreased by 2.7%, but is still quite high

• Infant mortality has decreased to 6.6‰

• Mortality among working-age men is much higher than among women, but mortality among women has increased somewhat

Through the eyes of the analysts

• The years of lost life are an indicator of the population’s health

• Promoting a healthy lifestyle as an instrument of state policy in the field of health care in modern Russia

• Russia’s health care challenges until 2020

• Life expectancy in Russia and factors affecting it

Q&A

• Availability and quality of Russian health care: patient reviews

• Emigrants from Russia: How many are there? Who are they?

• The age 30 milestone: gender roles and stereotypes

• The “Russia-Moscow” express doesn’t carry everyone

• Demographic study

In the vastness of Russia

• Natural decrease over 7 months came to 35.2 thousand people

• The main parameter for a demographer is the age at which people are dying for one cause of death or another

• In terms of life expectancy, Russia is in 108^th place out of 188

• Among the tasks of the Cabinet of Ministers is increasing life expectancy to 75 years

• Muscovites are living longer

• Russian Ministry of Health announces a reduction of mortality among the working-age population

• Experts predict a sharp fertility decline in Russia in the coming years

• Government discusses rural population size in Russia

• Rural development strategy until 2017 has been approved

• Government will expand the volume and possible uses of the maternity capital

• Lack of skilled workers threatens the competitiveness of Russia on world markets

• For labor migration, Russians are choosing the capitals, the Crimea, Krasnodar and the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District

• Quota for temporary residence of foreign citizens in Russia has been increased by 23 thousand people

• Migrant workers leaving Russia due to weakening of ruble

• About 150 thousand migrants could be found jobs in Russia

• More than 600 thousand refugees from Ukraine have decided to stay in Russia

• Russia to launch a new model of monitoring to predict ethnic conflicts

• The number of HIV-infected people in prisons has increased to 61 thousand

• Sale of alcohol after 6 pm may be prohibited throughout Russia

• Infant mortality has decreased in Moscow

• Activists propose to imprison Russian women for concealing pregnancy

• Pain-killers have become more accessible for cancer patients in Russia

• A complete rejection of imported medical equipment may have serious consequences

• VTsIOM is concerned about the high level of self-medication among Russians

• Ministry of Health proposes to check Russians for gambling addiction

• The attitude of Russians to the USA has changed dramatically since the days of perestroika

Eurasian panorama

• Population of Armenia will drop to 1.7-1.8 million by 2100

• The share of Armenia’s population older than 65 has reached 11%

• Belarus needs pension reform

• Pensions in Georgia increased by 4 dollars

• Labor pensions in Belarus have risen by 5% on average

• Salaries in Uzbekistan will be increased by 1.1 times starting September 1

• World Bank has analyzed barriers to higher education in Tajikistan

• Azerbaijan is developing a new concept of employment

• The problem of shadow employment in Ukraine is still important

• Ukraine will feel a shortage of labor and a need for migrants

• Representative of IOM names three major migration problems of Belarus

• Migrants from CIS will be able to obtain permanent residence in Russia by getting 65 points out of 100

• Migration crisis in Europe may prevent abolition of visas for Georgia

• Poroshenko confident that Ukraine will not create migration problems for EU

• Ukraine becomes one of six countries with the largest number of refugees in the EU

• The number of refugees in Ukraine is greater than during the war in Bosnia

• Over 600 Ukrainians have requested political asylum in Belarus

• Czech President urges help for migrants from Ukraine, not Africa

• Georgian citizens most often request asylum in Sweden

• Kirgiz diaspora in Russia incudes over a million people

• In Kazakhstan, 1700 cases of head and neck cancer are diagnosed each year

• Mass vaccination against polio will start in Ukraine in the near future

• In Kazakhstan, vaccinations against measles will begin October 1

• More than 33 thousand inhabitants of Azerbaijan have undergone medical examination for marriage

• Armenian Ministry of Health does not prohibit telling pregnant mothers the sex of their future child

• The population of post-Soviet countries turns out to be the least emotional

World news

• The Earth’s population is living longer, but in ill health

• The infant mortality rate in the world has been cut in half in the last 25 years

• 1,978,000 people live in Latvia

• In 25 years only one and a half million inhabitants will be left in Latvia

• In Britain life expectancy rose by 28 years over last century

• Lithuania has world’s third largest population gap between men and women

• Latvia to conduct 2015 microcensus

• Scientists name best countries for older people’s wellbeing

• The level of risk of poverty in Lithuania was 19.1% in 2014

• In Latvia’s Russian schools a growing number of first-graders

• The British are inclined to leave the EU

• The Netherlands intend to tighten immigration laws

• Britain’s migration rules are breaking up families

• Disagreements in EU over refugees put Schengen into question

• EC to create list of Safe Countries of Origin

• Poland needs Ukrainian workers

• Europe faced with a refugee crisis rather than an influx of migrants

• The perception of migrants as a burden distorts the situation

• Head of Britain’s Home Office calls for restricting the free movement of migrants

• Head of Scottish government accuses Cameron of indifference to the problems of migrant workers

• EU will begin naval operation against refugee smuggling in the autumn

• UN forecasts 850,000 refugees in Europe by the end of 2016

• Turkey world’s leader in terms of number of refugees accepted

• Hungary may send army to border to curb flow of refugees

• The migrants flooding Serbia and Macedonia came from the EU

• Most inhabitants of Belgium do not want to increase the intake of refugees

• Austria preparing to accept up to 80,000 refugees in 2015

• New Zealand ready to accept 750 refugees from Syria over next three years

• Poland is ready to accept more immigrants, but is wary of refugees from Ukraine

• Germany will allocate six billion euros for receiving refugees

• Over 2.1 million Nigerians have been displaced due to Boko Haram violence

• Researchers have calculated the economic benefit of smokers for society

• Is one cause of diabetes the abuse of antibiotics?

• Doctors around the world live on average 15 years less than their patients

• British biologists have learned to calculate a person’s biological age

• Pope allows forgiveness for abortions

• American televangelist calls stock market crash retribution for millions of abortions

The newspapers write about…

• “Ridus” and “Kommersant” on the causes of the rise in mortality

• “Obshaya gazeta” on the “culprits” in the rise of mortality

• “IA FederalPress” and “Dni.ru” on the ONF’s criticism of the Ministry of Health

• “Gazeta.ru” on the statistics of causes of death

• “Polit.ru” on crises and mortality

• “Kommersant” on life expectancy in Russia

• “Economy Times” on the demographic situation in Russia

• Moskovskiy Komsomolets” on the decline of the birth rate in Russia

• “Kommersant” on the indexation of the maternity capital

• “Economy Times” and “Novaya gazeta” on the social consequences of the crisis

• “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on health care expenditure

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” and “Novaya gazeta” on drug prices in Russia

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on “abolishing” the retirement age

• “Novosti Belarusi” on a possible increase in the retirement age in Belarus

• “Vlast” on the quality of life in the BRICS countries

• “RBK” on migrants and the economy

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on migration and unemployment

• “RBK” on saving on expats in the crisis

• “El Pais” and “RIA Novosti” on Europe’s migration problem

• “Vedomosti” on the attitude towards refugees

• “BBC Russkaya sluzhba” on the scale of the refugee exodus

• “Snob” on “humanism washed up on the beach”

• “Vedomosti” on “invisible” refugees in Russia

• “Rosbalt” on the demographic benefit from refugees from Ukraine

• “Kommersant” and “TASS” on schools and registration

• “Kommersant-Dengi” on the economic benefits of education

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on intellect and longevity

• “Kommersant” on productivity

• “Ekho” on mandatory medical examination of newlyweds in Azerbaijan

• “Ekspress-K” on the consequences of nuclear testing near Semipalatinsk

• “Cabar.asia” on ruralisation in Tajikistan

• “Sputnik Moldova” on possible restitution in Moldova

Read books and magazines

• The Millennium Development Goals Report 2015

• Global status report on violence prevention 2014

• Ukraine. Health Systems in Transition

• Principles and recommendations for a vital statistics system of natural population movement

• A practical guide for the operation of counseling centers for migrants (based on the experience of migrant support centers in the framework of a regional program on labor migration, 2010-2014)

• Through the pages of the journals “Sotsialnye aspekty zdorovya naseleniya” (“Social aspects of health”) and “Vestnik MGU. Seria 6. Ekonomika” (“Bulletin of Moscow State University. Series 6. Economics”)

• Contents of the journal “Demography”

Profession: researcher

• A forgotten chapter in the history of demography: western estimates of the postwar population of the USSR. Scientific seminar of the Institute of Demography of HSE

• Remembering Yelena Tyuryukanova

• Tyuryukanova Y. Gender aspects of labor migration from the CIS countries in Russia