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- Excessive weight: risks and problems
- What is “Obesity” and “Health”?
- Weight gain epidemic in Russia
- The rich and the poor. The educated and the uneducated on the
scales
- Russians – overfed or do not eat enough?
- Obesity and health studies
- What harm obesity cause to Russians’ health
- Is there enough awareness about obesity in Russia?
- Compared to 1990, the world-wide obesity prevalence has doubled
- World-wide, the proportion of overweight people aged 20 and
over have reached 35%, in North America – 62%
- According to WHO estimates, in 2010 the average BMI of
people aged 15 and over varied across the countries from
20 to 37
- In half of the countries, a proportion of overweight women aged
15 and over exceeded 52%, of men – 67%
- In the EU-27 states, a share of BMI≥30 among people at
the age 18 and over is from 8% to 25%
- Health effects of obesity
- Economic effects of obesity
- Excessive weight – how much does it cost and what can be done?
- Macro-determinants of healthy life-style
- Excessive body weight as an indicator of population health status:
causes and consequences
Maternal mortality in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Does Russia need adaptation and filtration centres for migrants?
- Over the last eight months of 2012, the Russian population grew
by 172 thousand people
- Positive demographic processes in Russia may stumble over a
decrease in women of reproductive age
- The UN: 11 Russian cities are dying out
- There over 1,25 million people living in Chuvashia
- There over 837,9 thousand people living in Saratov
- Representatives of over 115 nationalities live in Perm
- In 2013, Rosstat will conduct its first eating habits
survey
- By 2023, pensions in Russia may reach 24 thousand roubles
- Working high income pensioners may lose their pensions
- Length of service and insurance period issues cause intense
debase in discussions over the pension reform
- Russian adoption is more than twice as high as adoption by foreign
parents
- The State Duma banned firing fathers of large families who are
sole breadwinners
- There were 7 thousand dismissals more than employments in Russia
in September
- The State Dume adopted the Draft Law legalizing Russian passports
the Federal Migration Service have no information about
- Russia and the Ukraine signed a readmission agreement
- Russian entrance procedure for migrants should be simplified,
says Medvedev
- Labour migrants from Central Asia should use international passports
to enter Russia
- The Council for Citizen’s Constitutional Rights discussed migration
issues
- Social activists and human rights advocates argue over how to
address migration issues
- Cancellation of zero quotas for use of migrant labour
in retail trade - legalization of the current status?
- 47% of Russians have negative attitude towards migrant workers
- The Federal Migration Service asks for the State Duma support
in fighting illegal migration
- About 200 thousand compatriots are expected to return to the
RF by 2015
- Residential qualification for compatriot migrants may be cancelled
- Moscow intends to encourage unification of Russian communities
abroad
- The Federal Migration Service satisfies 10% of requests for
refugee status
- About 40% of Russians don’t drink alcohol
- Fines for selling alcohol to minors have been raised to half
a million roubles
- Banning smoking in public places is supported by 80% of Russians
- About 250 thousand Russians annually die of stroke
- Medvedev signed three-year program of state guaranteed free
medical care
- Palliative care was included into the program of state guaranteed
free medical care
- Since 2006, access to high-technology care has increased fivefold
- Russian MoH presented the Drug Provision Strategy for up to
2025
- By 2015, 15% of schools are to be available for disabled children
- The number of Armenian de-facto population is 2871771 people
- By 2015, Alma-Ata residents are expected to grow by 150 thousand
- Kazakhstan demographic development is uneven
- In the Ukraine, over the eight months, deaths exceeded
births by 100 thousand
- Every second death in Belorussia is caused by circulatory system
diseases
- Belorussia will actively encourage having two or more children
- The Ukrainian nation-wide population census was postponed till
2013 due to lack of resources
- UNFPA views Kazakhstan as a regional hub
- In 2012, population cash income in Tajikistan was over $2,6
billion
- Belorussia has risen the subsistence level to $103
- Starting from November, Belorussia increases the amounts of
retirement pension
- Georgia plans to raise pension amounts to the subsistence
level within several years
- Azerbaijan needs 123 years to cover all workers with pension
insurance
- About 70% of Belorussian families assess their material status
as middle or above middle
- 70% of Kazakhstan people are prepared to work after retirement
- In Belorussia, in September, the number of unemployed population
reduced by 5,5%
- The Ukraine has experienced a rise in unemployment
- Kazakhstan plans to create 33 thousand new workplaces by the
end of 2012
- Kazakhstan reduced the validity period of stateless persons’
documents
- The European Union leaves open the opportunity of an agreement
with the Ukraine on visa-free regime being signed in 2014
- The EU conditioned the liberalization of visa regime for Moldova
by its progress in combating corruption
- Over 1991- 2012, Kazakhstan has received 895899 people under
the Ethnic Repatriation program
- Azerbaijan experienced a 9% growth in labour migrants
- There are 2435 refugees in the Ukraine
- Since 2004, almost 900 people have been saved from slavery in
Kazakhstan
- About 1 million of Byelorussians binge drink
- There are over 7 thousand drug users and 4,5 thousand
HIV-infected individuals
- In Kirgizia, 0,8% of population take opioids
- In Belorussia, 940 new HIV infections were recorded in January-February
- UN will allocate $30 million to Kirgizia to fight AIDS, tuberculosis
and malaria
- Almost 5% of Kazakh underage girls were forced into marriage
- Norway rates first among the most prosperous countries
- North European countries have retained leading positions
in gender equality rating
- The Latvian Seim has approved the Draft State Budget prioritizing
demographic issues
- Latvian Prime-Minister has declared war against poverty
- the Adoption Agreement between the RF and the USA has come into
force
- The USA is a leader in adopting Russian children
- In September, the unemployment level in the Eurozone grew to
11,6 per cent
- Hungary intends to offer citizenship to foreign nationals, willing
to buy ˆ250,000 of Hungarian bonds
- The European Union contemplates cancelling visa-free arrangements
with Western Balkan countries
- Romania’s and Bulgaria’s joining the Schengen zone has been
put off again
- Obama promises to enact migration reform in 2013
- The number of people who has left Latvia continues to
grow
- Two-thirds of middle class British citizens want to emigrate
from the country
- Two-year Estonian program, which was aimed at returning Estonians
living abroad, has failed
- Every year German Turks send home a billion euro
- Over 22 thousand people have become refugees as a result of
Myanmar clashes
- Over half of French people are concerned over growing
Islamisation of France
- The number of people, speaking the Russian language, has reached
half a billion
- Sandy took the lives of at least 98 people in the USA
- On average, smoking takes at least ten years off a person’s
life
- Annually, 7000 of Estonians are diagnosed with cancer
- IVF increases the risk of malformation of foetus
- Age of puberty among American boys dropped
- «Slon.Ru» - about population forecasts for the USA and Russia
- “Vzglyad” and “Vedomosty” – about calls for the termination
of China’s one-child policy
- «Opec.ru» - about the price of human capital in Russia
- “Ogonek” – about Russia’s position in global wealth rating
- “Komersant” – about prolongation of the Programme for Russian
health care modernization
- “Medicinskaya Gazeta” – about the modernization of Moscow health
care
- “Trud” – about high technology medical care
- “Medicinskaya Gazeta” – about the CIS health forum
- «Gazeta.ru» - about anti-smoking law
- «Gazeta.ru» - about the Federal Targeted Program for Improving
Road Safety
- “Expert” – about smoking, drinking and drug use among Russian
teenagers
- “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” – about regional demographic policy
- “Vedomosti” – about migration and economy
- “Moscow News” and “Novaya Gazeta” – about migration problems
in Russia
- “Comersant” – about St.-Petersburg legislators’ migration project
- “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” – about camps for migrants
- “Izvestiya” – about pension contributions for migrants
- «Christian Science Monitor» - about migration and globalization
- «Atlantico» - on the spread of Islam in the EU
- «Radiovesti.ru» - about birth rates and migration in Great Britain
- «Vatican Insider» - about migration through the eyes of
Benedict XVI
- «Radiovesti.ru» - about Rogozin’s vision of migration
- «The Wall Street Journal» and “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” – about
emigration moods of Russians
- “Russkaya Germaniya” - about visa arrangements between
Balkan countries and the EU
- «The Washington Post» - about attitude towards Afro-Americans
in the US
- “Belorus Segodnya” – about ethnic composition of the Belorussian
population
- “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” – about the elderly social consciousness
- “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” – about the istitutions for protection
of older generations
- “Itogi” and “Commersant On-Line” – about the draft law against
employment age restrictions
- “Vedomosti” – about elderly employees in the US
- “Comersant” and «Opec.ru» - about strategy for pension
system development
- «Finmarket.Ru» - about a lack of demographic grounds for raising
the retirement age
- «Opec.ru» - about the fear of unemployment in Russia
- «Slon.Ru» - about cash management in Russian families
- «Profile» - about inter-household network exchanges
- «Slon.Ru» - about «Devine Order» and demography
- “Telegraph” – about the church and abortions in Latvia
- “Echo” – about selective abortions in Azerbaijan
- “Vecherniy Beshkek” – about bride kidnapping in Kirgizstan
- «American Thinker» - about one-sex marriages
- “Polit.ru” – about the crisis in legitimacy of child protection
system
- “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” – about Moscow homeless people
- Global recommendations on physical activities for health
- Eurostat Regional Yearbook 2012
- Ageing In the twenty-first century: a celebration and a challenge
- Human Development in the Ukraine: Social and Demographic Factors
of National Economy Modernization
- Ethno-demographic processes in Kazakhstan and adjoining
territories
- Materials from “Population Health Social Aspects” and
“Russian Bulletin of Perinatology
and Pediatrics” journals
- The content of «International Journal of Law, Policy and the
Family »
A note on of medical demography history
- In October the site traffic increased by 35%
- In October, Demoscope was read in 130 countries
- Site visitors’ geography is expanding
- The most attentive visitors in October were from Oman
- Russian regions geography
- The most attentive Demoscope visitors are again from Nizhniy
Arhyz
- Users’ language
- In October the Site’s ratting rose in Science Section
and Education and Research Portals
- We are being cited…
- Most popular Demoscope Weekly pages in October 2012
The bribed demography. The famous expert from the famous
"Expert" Journal - Ivan Rubanov, knows that: "The
fertility in Russia Is rising … The positive dynamics of population
this year were at three forth determined by a quite unexpected growth
of fertility… All these positive achievements are rather large-scale
and, as It appears, are the consequence of improvement of the social
and economic situation, progress in a system of values and,
to some extent, active demographic policy which started in 2007".
Demoscope knows more…
N.A.Shneiderman . Frank Talk: Fertility and Fertility Regulation
Measures. Moscow., Mysl. 1991
- 22.11.2012 – Meeting of Demographics Section
of the Central House of Scientists . Program: “Family planning
in Russia, Belorussia and the Ukraine –comparative analysis”.
Report by Sakevitch V.I., phd in economics.
- 5th Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA),
15-19 July 2013. Ljubljana, (Slovenia). The application deadline:
13 January, 2013
- The Conference of the European Sociological Association: “Crisis,
Critique and Change”, Torino (Italy). 28-31 August, 2013.
- The 27th Annual Conference of the European Society for Population
Economics ESPE. Arhus (Denmark).12-15 July, 2013. The application
deadline: 1 February, 2013.
- The 8th Global Conference on Health Promotion 2013. Helsinki
(Finland).10-14 July, 2013.
- The International Conference “Changing families and fertility
choices”. Oslo (Norway). 6-7 June, 2013. The application deadline:
10 January, 2013.
- Two PhD positions with a focus on Segregation Processes and
Spatial Demography at the Department of Human Geography. Stochholm
(Sweden). The application deadline: 15 November, 2012.
- The Youth Video-Conference “Migration Processes in the Post-Soviet
Space”. 11 December, 2012.
- The 27th International Population Conference. 26-31, 2013. Busan
(Korea). The application deadline: no later than 7 November, 2012.
- UNFPA is seeking a Technical Adviser on Population and Development.
Istanbul (Turkey). The application deadline: 15 November, 2012.
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