## 683-684

Current topic: Mortality and life expectancy in Russia: What’s new? Part one.

• The falling number of deaths has come to a halt

• The restorative growth of life expectancy has not yet overcome the lag behind developed countries

• To what ages and causes of death is the growth in life expectancy due

• Regional aspects of Russian mortality

• Appendix. Table. Changes in life expectancy at birth in 2014 in the Russian regions

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

Russia demographic barometer

• Morbidity of the population of Russia, 2014-2015

• In 2014, the disease incidence rate decreased

• In 2015, the incidence of acute respiratory viral infections increased, while the incidence of acute intestinal infections and hepatitis decreased

• In 2015, the number of reported cases of HIV infection exceeded the number of new cases of active tuberculosis by 11%

• In 2014, incidence of primary drug abuse rose, and the incidence of adolescent drug and substance abuse continued to grow

• In 2015 23,000 people died in road accidents, and 230,000 were injured

Through the eyes of the analysts

• Operational statistical information about the population: possibilities and limitations

• Life expectancy in Russia and factors affecting it

• Factors of mortality from external causes and ways to reduce it: interviews with experts

Take care of women!

• The lowest level of inequality among children is in Denmark – the highest, in Israel and Turkey

• New video course “Gender for Dummies”

• Resource for those who work with young people

In the vastness of Russia

• By 2020, the population in Russia is expected to grow to 147.5 million

• Medvedev announces “record” life expectancy in the Russian Federation

• Average life expectancy of Russians should be 75 years

• Life expectancy in Moscow could reach 80 years by 2020

• In Russia, the difference in life expectancy between men and women has decreased

• Will the natural increase of the population of Russia continue until 2020?

• Putin has been asked to create Ministry of Demography

• Will raising the retirement age have only a slight effect?

• GDP growth in Russia is impossible without an increase in productivity

• The number of poor is growing at the fastest pace over the last 17 years

• Wage arrears in Russia over the last month have increased by a third

• Duma does not consider tax on childlessness a means of increasing fertility

• Ministry of Labor proposes to extend maternity capital program beyond 2018

• Ministry of Labor will begin issuing maternity capital certificate electronically

• Russian-Finnish border closed to refugees

• Medvedev thanks State Duma for tougher immigration laws

• In Russia, 50% of men and 17% of women smoke

• Ministry of Health announces increase in the incidence of type 2 diabetes

• Infant mortality rate in Moscow has fallen by 30% over last five years

• New norms developed for the arrival of ambulances

• Over half of children with rare diseases are registered as disabled persons

• Head of Duma committee opposes payments to those choosing not to abort

• Russian Orthodox Church calls for punishing doctors encouraging women to abort

• Russia’s population needs information about hemophilia

• Workplace injuries fall sharply in Russia

• People should be required to take care of their health

• Government calls Ministry of Health’s work in 2015 “good”

Eurasian panorama

• Population of Kazakhstan as of March 2016 came to 17.7 million people

• Population of Moldova is decreasing

• Armenia has lost a million people of working-age over the last quarter of a century

• 2015 was a record year in Belarus in the number of newborns

• Natural increase of the population of Kirgizia in 2015 was 128,6000 people

• Mortality in Ukraine is one of the highest in Europe

• The “oldest” region of Belarus is the Vitebsk region

• Lukashenko signs decree on raising the retirement age

• Census data of Moldova will be presented 3 years after it has been conducted

• Purchasing power of working population in Ukraine has decreased by 25.4% over past two years

• One in two pensioners in Moldova doesn’t have enough money to live on

• In Kirgizia, almost one woman in seven aged 15-19 is married

• People in Armenia and Georgia are particularly concerned about unemployment and poverty

• Level of registered unemployment in Belarus came to 1.2%

• Kirgizia to attract 552 foreign specialists by quota

• EU to provide Armenia with 10 million euros to address the problems of refugees

• Ukrainian workers have transferred $30 billion to their homeland over last five years

• In Belarus, 645 cases of HIV infection diagnosed from January to March

• Number of diabetics in Moldova has increased by half over past ten years

• In 2015, about 3 thousand children under one year of age died in Kirgizia

• Maternal mortality in Kazakhstan has decreased by 84% over past 25 years

• Women in Georgia often become surrogate mothers for foreigners

• Abkhazia bans abortion

• In Georgia, patients with hepatitis C will be provided medicines

• Georgian Interior Ministry has developed project to combat domestic violence

World news

• The number of international migrants in the world is 244 million

• Remittances of migrants to developing countries has exceeded $460 billion

• Lithuania’s population could shrink to two million people

• Latvia has lost nearly half of its young people

• Fertility in Finland has dropped to historic lows

• The reasons for the differences in income between men and women have been identified

• Lithuania will accelerate issuance of residence permits to skilled foreigners

• Norway to protect living standards with stringent migration laws

• More and more foreigners coming to Poland from Ukraine

• Israel has published information about the emigration of Russian-speaking citizens from the country

• European Union fears new wave of migration from Libya

• Over last three months 181,000 asylum applications filed by refugees in Germany

• Latvia plans to take in 30 refugees per month

• EU needs extra $15 billion to solve refugee problem

• Hollande pledges 100 million euros to Lebanon for refugees

• Pope calls refugee crisis one of the biggest disasters

• In Denmark, migrants abandoning Islam and converting to Christianity

• Arabic is the second most common language in Sweden

• Biased media coverage of migrant crime

• Europeans spend 24 billion euros annually on drugs

• One in 12 people in world have diabetes

• In Thailand, drunk drivers will be sent to work in morgue

• In Poland, a move to ban abortions completely

• European scientists recommend giving birth later in life

• Infant mortality in Israel is one of the lowest in the world

• Does marriage increase the chances of beating cancer?

• Pope allows divorced people to receive holy sacraments

• Mississippi law protects believers from claims of sexual minorities

• Columbia legalizes same-sex marriage

The newspapers write about…

• “Polit.ru” on life expectancy in Russia

• “RBK” on life expectancy and well-being

• “Polit.ru” and “Kommersant” on Russia’s demographic successes

• “Fakty” on mortality on Ukraine’s roads

• “Golos Armenii” on a National project to improve the demographic situation in Armenia

• “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on summing up meeting of Russia’s Ministry of Health Board

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on the problems of emergency care

• “Russkaya Planeta” on limiting the access of the elderly to doctors

• “Novaya gazeta” on the failure of the “Zemstvo Doctor” program

• “Die Welt” on the medical mafia in Germany

• “Der Spiegel” on the problem of diabetes

• “Goteborgs-Posten” on a stroke gene

• “Dagens Nyheter” on the global drug problem

• “Komsomolskaya Pravda” on the demographic problems of Bashkortostan

• “Kommersant” on Russia’s human capital

• “Izvestiya” on Russia’s pension system

• “Vedomosti” on the retirement age in Russia and Belarus

• “Novosti Belarusi” on raising the retirement age in Belarus

• “Izvestiya” on a register of disabled persons

• “Kommersant” and “Deutsche Welle” on the transfer of the Federal Migration Service to the Interior Ministry

• “Kommersant” on invitations from employers for migrant workers

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on migration as a global problem

• “Berlingske” on the pitfalls of multiculturalism

• “Atlantico” on refugees and violence

• “Kommersant” on the influx of migrants into the UK

• “Der Spiegel” on missing refugee children

• “RBK”, “Vedomosti” and “Kommersant FM” on the migration intentions of high school graduates in small towns

• “Novosti Belarusi” on jobs for Belarusian graduates

• “Vedomosti” on low-cost rental housing

• “AmurPRESS” on moving Chinese enterprises to Russia’s Far East

• “Slon.ru” on social inequality and the crisis

• “Novaya gazeta” on adapting to the crisis

• “Asia-Plus” on youth unemployment in Tajikistan

• “RBK” on gender equality

• “Radio Svoboda” on the rights of women in the republics of the North Caucasus

• “Atlantico” on interclass marriages

• “Gazeta.ru” on a code of rules for Catholic families

• “Russkaya sluzhba BBC” on penalties for clients of prostitutes

Read books and magazines

• Growing up unequal: gender and socioeconomic differences in young people's health and well-being

• Tuberculosis surveillance and monitoring in Europe 2016

• United Kingdom. Health Systems in Transition

• Public health and health care in the Kyrgyz Republic. 2010-2014

• The impact of globalization and WTO membership on the quality of life of the population of the BRICS countries

• Through the pages of the magazines “Demograficheskoye obozreniye” (“Demographic Review”) and “Ekologiya cheloveka” (“Human ecology”)

• Contents of the journal “Demography”

New in the reading room

• A.R. Vyatkin. Developing countries of the East: a demographic forecast

Demographic digest

• The role of smoking in changes in the survival curve: an empirical study in 10 European countries

• The adoption of smoking and its effect on the mortality gender gap in Netherlands: A historical perspective

• The role of smoking on mortality compression: An analysis of Finnish occupational social classes, 1971-2010

• The contribution of a history of heavy smoking to Scotland’s mortality disadvantage

• The global war on smoking

Profession: researcher

• Demography at the XVII April International Scientific Conference of HSE

• The effectiveness of demographic policy: methods of evaluation. Meeting of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists of the RAS

• Happy birthday to Leonid Leonidovich Rybakovsky

• 70 years since the birth of Anatoly Rudolfovich Vyatkin

• Alexander Petrovich Katrovsky turns 60!