Contents of Demoscope Weekly issue

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Current topic: What working-age Russians get ill with and die of

  • The working age population is shrinking

  • The number of survivors has increased, but…

  • Overall morbidity and its components

  • Diseases of the circulatory system

  • Respiratory diseases

  • Diseases of the musculoskeletal system

  • External causes

  • Morbidity with temporary disability

  • Links to related topics

  • Topics of previous issues

European Demographic Barometer

  • EU-28: The first demographic results of 2015

  • The EU-28's population has exceeded 510 million people, increasing by 3.5% over 2015

  • In 2015 the EU-28 recorded its first ever natural decrease (-0.3 ‰), with population growth coming from net migration (3.7 ‰)

  • In 2015, 5.1 million people were born in the EU-28, or 10 per 1,000 people

  • 5.2 million people died - 5.8% more than in 2014

  • Life expectancy for both sexes in the EU-28 steadily exceeds 80 years

  • In the conditions of mortality in 2014, nearly 88% of those born in the EU-28 lived to age 65

  • About two-thirds of deaths are caused by diseases of the circulatory system and malignant neoplasms

Through the eyes of the analysts…

  • Cardiovascular disease in the context of the socio-economic priorities of Russia’s long-term development

  • The epidemiology of stroke in Russia according to the results of the territorial and population register (2009-2010)

  • The ultimate effect of Russia’s demographic policies in the 1980s

Q&A

  • The ideal family - 2016

  • Family quarrels and violence

  • Live with your parents or apart?

  • “I’m not afraid to say it”: keep silent or put it in writing?

  • Emigration

  • A steady reduction in smoking

In the vastness of Russia

  • In June 2016 Russia recorded a natural population increase of 9,400 people

  • The population of Siberia will decrease by 2031

  • Kudrin considers an increase in the retirement age inevitable

  • Golodets announces that a decision regarding complete pension indexation could be made in August

  • Senators approve law on the payment of 25,000 rubles from the maternity capital

  • Russians believe that the government’s social policy needs serious changes

  • Russia suspends work with a number of countries in the area of adoption

  • Moscow takes 67th place in ranking of most expensive cities for foreigners

  • Rostrud wants to double the number of users of the “Work in Russia” portal

  • Are Russian migrants pushing foreign migrant workers out of the labor market?

  • Russia’s law simplifying citizenship for valuable specialists has gone into effect

  • In the past six months 1,390 native Russian speakers have received Russian citizenship

  • Interior Ministry has opposed the registration of citizens in non-residential buildings

  • Foreign migrant workers have contributed more to the Moscow budget than have the oil companies

  • Migrants will be required to have fingerprints taken before test in Russian language

  • Are Chinese farmers more interested than Russians in the lands of the Far East?

  • Medvedev dismisses Romodanovsky as head of the liquidated Federal Migration Service

  • Migrants with HIV infection may be allowed free entry into Russia

  • Muscovites have begun consuming less vodka, wine and beer

  • The number of serious work injuries has fallen by a quarter

  • Rospotrebnadzor is preparing volunteers for phase 2 of Ebola vaccine trials

  • Government has plan against the leaching out of cheap medicines from the market

  • State Duma supports introduction of penalties for violations of patients’ rights

  • Ministry of Health does not agree with the idea of gradating donors and recipients according to occupation

  • Veronika Skvortsova tells how to live to 120

World news

  • Australians will face fine for refusing to participate in census

  • Germany refuses to recognize polygamy and marriages of migrants with teenagers

  • Italian Muslims would like polygamy to be recognized

  • The population of Riga is 638,784 people

  • Results of the 2014 census in Moldova will be processed by hand

  • 24% of Ukrainians are categorised as poor

  • Tajikistan and Russia have almost agreed on the pensions of migrants

  • Georgian President refuses referendum on same-sex marriage

  • In UK, schoolchildren will be asked about their ethnicity

  • Over the past 20 years, the number of non-citizens in Latvia has decreased almost three-fold

  • In 2015 Kirgizia saw its first migration increase

  • One third of Ukrainians have thought about moving abroad

  • In Kazakhstan, an increase in the number of people moving abroad

  • In Ukraine, about 800,000 internally displaced persons

  • The number of migrants arriving in Greece has doubled

  • Sweden is dissatisfied with Hungary’s refusal to accept refugees

  • UK will limit child allowances for immigrants from the EU

  • Kirgizia proposes to create a single EEU trade union for migrant workers

  • More than 60,000 international migrants have died or gone missing in the last 20 years

  • In Kazakhstan, a growing number of cancer patients

  • In Uzbekistan, infant mortality has decreased by 13%

  • Kirgizia is the “anti-leader” among CIS countries in terms of maternal mortality

  • Medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the US

  • Swedish doctors have named the two main factors contributing to premature death

  • Georgia should become a model for health reform

  • Married people drink less and more rarely

  • Only 48% of young people in the US consider themselves strictly heterosexual

The newspapers write about…

  • “Nakanune.RU” on the demographic situation in Russia

  • “FINANCE.UA” on the demographic situation in Ukraine

  • “Ekho Moskvy” on demographic disasters

  • “Kommersant” on the implementation of the May decrees

  • “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on a rating of regional health care systems

  • “Polit.Ru” on pre-electoral medicine

  • “Kommersant” on the economic causes of the slow pace of reducing the spread of HIV

  • “Novye Izvestiya” on HIV-dissidents

  • “Slon.ru” on the healthy lifestyle of American teenagers

  • “Gigamir.net” on vaccination in Ukraine

  • “Kommersant-Dengi” on the history of birth control in Russia

  • “Meditsinskaya Gazeta” on church abortion prevention centers

  • “MOSLENTA” on the consequences of a rise in the price of condoms

  • “Novaya Gazeta” on underage motherhood

  • “Dagens Nyheter” on castrating pedophiles

  • “Novosti Belarusi” on the non-payment of child benefits to those leaving Belarus

  • “Novye Izvestiya” on child suicide

  • “Kommersant” on aging and innovation

  • “Litovskiy Kuryer” on reforming the pension and social security systems in Lithuania

  • “Novye Izvestiya” on regional norms for hiring persons with disabilities

  • “Kommersant” on the migration situation in Russia

  • “RBK” on the expulsion of migrants

  • “Kommersant-Dengi” on migration and remittances in Tajikistan

  • “RBK” and “The National Interest” on emigration and the brain drain from Russia

  • “Vedomosti” on “global Russians”

  • “Novaya Gazeta” on the migration crisis in Europe

  • “Die Welt” and “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on the EU-Turkey refugee deal

  • “RBK” on Germany’s migration policy

  • “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on the housing shortage for refugees in Germany

  • “Ogonyok” on Russia-EU visas

  • “FranceTVinfo” on the problems of Africans in Russia

  • “The Telegraph” on migration from the Crimea

  • “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on the exodus from the Primorsky Territory

  • “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on a revival of the centers of the largest cities

  • “Vedomosti” on a strategy for containing Beijing’s population growth

  • “iq.hse.ru” on city-dwellers moving to the village

  • “Kommersant” on rental housing

  • “Kommersant” on the inadmissibility of denying the Stalinist deportations

  • “Kommersant” on the creation of a population register in Russia

Read books and magazines

  • Population Situation Analysis: Beyond The Demographic Transition In Azerbaijan

  • Tajikistan. Health systems in transition

  • Voluntary health insurance in Europe. Country experience

  • Women and men of the Republic of Belarus

  • Labor exploitation, human trafficking and migrant health: a study of the health risks and of their impact on migrant workers and victims of human trafficking by the example of several countries

  • Through the pages of the journals “Demograficheskoye Obozrenie” (“Demographic Review”) and “Profilakticheskaya Meditsina”(“Preventive Medicine”)

  • Contents of the journal “Demographic Research”

Demographic Digest

  • The Impact of Migration on Long-Term European Population Trends, 1850 to Present

  • Who Benefits from Economic Growth? Work and Pay in Brazil, 1973–1988

  • Breastfeeding in the 21st century: epidemiology, mechanisms, and lifelong effect

  • BONUS: Emulating the eminent

Profession: researcher

  • Dmitry Dmitrievich Bogoyavlenskiy turns 70

  • Happy birthday to Liliya Borisovna Karachurina

  • 125 years since the birth of Arseniy Petrovich Khomenko

  • In memory of Janina Józwiak

Student page

  • Presentation of diplomas to the sixth graduating class of Master’s Students in Demography

 
 
 
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