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World demographic barometer

• Life expectancy and healthcare in OECD countries

• Life expectancy increasing against the backdrop of rising healthcare spending

• Healthcare coverage in OECD countries has become almost universal

• Average healthcare spending in the OECD exceeds $4,000 per person per year, or 9% of GDP

• Two-thirds of healthcare spending goes towards inpatient and outpatient care

• The average number of persons per doctor has fallen to 297, while the average number per hospital bed has increased to 214

Take care of women!

• February 11: International Day of Women and Girls in Science

• American schoolchildren delaying the onset of sexual activity

In the vastness of Russia

• Fertility in Russia the lowest in last 10 years

• Russia achieves lowest mortality rate in 25 years

• Skvortsova reports a decrease in mortality in all age groups

• Russian men lead short lives and don’t work long

• ROC proposes introducing Demography classes into the school curriculum

• Russians are aware of the president’s demographic initiatives, but are unsure of their effectiveness

• Audit Chamber head proposes radical reshaping of pension system

• Will people be given a million rubles each to move to the Far East?

• Employment has been affected by import substitution and aging of the population

• Smart migration policy will stimulate economic growth

• Migrants in Moscow received almost half a million work licenses in 2017

• In 2017 the Ministry of Internal Affairs uncovered more than 1.6 million administrative violations in the sphere of migration

• More foreigners coming to Russia for medical treatment

• Will average alcohol consumption in Russia drop to normal in 10 years?

• Ministry of Health not yet planning to raise the legal age for buying alcohol to 21

• Sale of alcohol to drunk persons to be banned

• Mortality from heart attacks and strokes in the capital has decreased threefold

• Ministry of Labor proposes to abolish annual examination of disabled persons for certain diseases

• Ministry of Health is working on a national cancer program

• Have the church’s efforts helped reduce the number of abortions in the Russian Federation?

• The pathologicoanatomic service should become independent

• Medvedev approves Road Safety Strategy until 2024

• Extracts from patient medical records will be obtainable remotely

• Pharmacies will be obliged to offer customers the cheapest medicines

• Ministry of Health sets out the criteria for a healthy lifestyle

• FAS does not approve healthy lifestyle strategy plan

• Two-thirds of Russians hopeful about coming year

• Crime rate in Russia has dropped

World news

• The population of Germany growing only due to migration

• The number of Ukrainians decreased in 2017

• The population of Uzbekistan is 32,653,000 people

• By 2050 there will be eight million fewer Ukrainians

• Increase in life expectancy slowing down all around the world

• Decline in fertility indicators a surprise for Chinese authorities

• In Uzbekistan, the number of births has decreased

• In Uzbekistan, the number of divorces has increased

• Ukraine enters ranks of the world’s 30 most rapidly aging countries

• Japanese strongly urged not to grow old

• In Spain, world’s oldest man dies at age 114

• A proposal to increase adolescence to age 24

• 192.7 million unemployed people worldwide

• Uzbekistan to introduce separate foreign travel passports

• Visa-free travel with Europe has intensified labor migration from Ukraine

• More than 63% of Ukrainians are ready to earn money in Russia

• Uzbekistan discusses accession to IOM

• US reports tightening of rules for receiving refugees

• Number of refugees from the Central African Republic has reached “horrific” levels

• Israel gives African refugees three months to leave country

• In Japan nearly 3 million people came down with the flu

• World facing increase in mortality due to antibiotics

• The number of elderly ill persons will increase

• PACE announces the number of losses due to war in Ukraine

• Tajik authorities want to introduce criminal punishment for adultery

The newspapers write about…

• “Vechernyaya Moskva”, “Regions.Ru”, Moskovskiy Monitor” and “Kommersant” on the initiative to equate cohabitation with marriage

• “INFOX” on natural population decrease in the regions

• “REGNUM” on attracting skilled workers to the Far East

• “REGNUM” and “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on migration from the Far East

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on internal migration in Russia

• “FederalPress” on the Leningrad hectare

• “Novye Vremena” and “Rosbalt” on the Center for Strategic Research report

• “Novaya Gazeta” on migration and corruption

• “Delfi.It” on a demographic forecast for Lithuania

• “SNOB” on a long life

• “Gazeta.Ru” on the possibilities of artificial intelligence to predict death

• “Russkaya sluzhba BBC” on a new cancer test

• “Moskovskiy Komsomolets” on patient adherence among the elderly

• “Project Syndicate” on the fight against cholera in Bangladesh

• “Frankfurter Rundschau” on the Russian view on sexual harassment

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on safe food

• “Izvestiya” on vitamin deficiency

• “Izvestiya” on factors of male infertility

• “Gazeta.Ru” on Russian families and divorce

• “Kavkaz. Realii” on the attitude to infidelity and abortion

• TV Channel “360” on surrogate motherhood

• “SNOB” on the fate of single fathers

• “Project Syndicate” on urbanization in India

• “Forbes” on inequality

• “Moskovskiy Komsomolets” on poverty in Russia

• “RBK” on the continuing fall in incomes

• “Cherdak” on the robotization of Japan

• “Mainichi Shimbun” on social exclusion in Japan

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on lonelinsse, an illness of the elderly

• “Kommersant” on the Safe Traffic Strategy

• “Kommersant” on the level of crime rate

• “Moskovskiy Komsomolets” on pensions

• “Svobodnaya Pressa” on poor pensioners in Germany

• “Russkaya sluzhba BBC” on treating alcoholics

• “2035” on a new generation of Russians

• “EurasiaNet” on Russian students abroad

• “The Village” on fake diagnoses

• “Moskovskiy Komsomolets” and “Novaya Gazeta” on the marriage of two Russian gays

• “Zerkalo Nedeli” on emigration from Ukraine

• “Kommersant” on a billboard ad with Scripture quote

• “Novy Den” on Zhirinovsky’s presidential campaign platform

• “The Washington Post” on the right age for toilet training

Read books and magazines

• Demographic Yearbook of Russia. 2017

• United Nations Demographic Yearbook. 2016

• On the situation of children and families with children in Moscow in 2016

• The peoples of Bashkortostan in the population censuses. Part 1

• The peoples of Bashkortostan in the population censuses. Part 2

• Through the pages of the journals “Naseleniye i Ekonomika” (“Population and Economics”) and “Obozrevatel” (“The Observer”)

• Contents of the journal “Demography”

Profession: researcher

• Presentation of the book "Mortality from external causes in Russia since the mid- 20^th century"

• 90^th anniversary of the birth of Sergei Petrovich Kapitsa

• S.P.Kapitsa. The Demographic Revolution and Russia