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World demographic barometer

Medical personnel of the world

• Worldwide, there are 16 doctors and 38 nurses for every 10 thousand people

• On average, in OECD countries the share of healthcare and social assistance workers has exceeded 10% of the economically employed

• In OECD countries, the salaries of doctors and nurses tend to exceed the average wage

• The average number of graduates from medical schools in the OECD countries is 13 doctors and 44 nurses per 100,000 people

• One in four doctors and one in six nurses in OECD countries are international migrants

Take care of women

• Attitudes to the problem of gender inequality in different countries

• WHO and UNICEF urge women not to stop breastfeeding during COVID-19 pandemic

• In Russia against the backdrop of the pandemic, more refusals to provide women abortions

In the vastness of Russia

• Ministry of Health announces increase in mortality of the working-age population

• Infant mortality rate in Russia one of lowest in history

• Rosstat and the Ministry of Health are developing proposals to synchronize mortality data

• Ministry of Health reveals new technique for counting coronavirus cases

• 78% of doctors doubt official statistics of mortality from coronavirus

• Low coronavirus mortality rates in Moscow arouse distrust

• The number of divorces in Moscow decreased in April by 65%

• Russia passes law on unified register of citizen information

• State Duma increases childcare benefits for the unemployed

• Salary arrears as of May 1 exceeded 2.2 billion rubles

• In Russia, 4.3 million jobless

• Experiment to use mobile application instead of passport will be launched in Moscow

• Russians ask authorities to review migration policy

• Foreigners investing in Russia will be able to obtain a residence permit

• Will the Russian Federation grant birthright citizenship to children of migrants?

• State Duma introduces new measures to control registration of migrants

• State Duma simplifies refugee status

• Information portal and app for migrants to appear in Russia

• Moscow authorities deny worsening crime situation among migrants

• Russian Ministry of Health discloses oncology treatment spending in 2020

• Murashko promises to build cancer care system within a year

• Temporary halt in check-ups could affect level of cancer detection

• Child mortality in road accidents down by almost 40% over last ten years

• The number of abortions should be reduced by education, not prohibitions

• Doctors tired of working in pandemic

• Over next three years Russia will give WHO $9 million

World news

• UK has highest proportion of excess deaths in Europe

• Spanish authorities revise coronavirus death statistics

• Up to 96% of deaths from COVID-19 in Italy had concomitant diseases

• Are 10% of those infected responsible for 80% of new cases of coronavirus infections?

• Sweden’s experiment with creating collective immunity to COVID-19 did not bring expected results

• World Bank allocates Belarus 90 million euros to combat COVID-19

• Will the first wave of coronavirus have an “immediate second peak”?

• WHO warns of possible second wave of Covid-19 in September

• Informativeness of PCR tests for coronavirus depends on the day of sampling

• Two regions of Germany decide to abandon measures to protect against coronavirus

• Belarus limits the number of guests at weddings due to Covid-19

• Demographic situation in South Korea continues to deteriorate

• In 2019, 174 thousand children were born in Kirgizia

• Will domestic partnerships be legalized in Latvia?

• In Lithuania, the number of schoolchildren and university students has decreased by 8.3 thousand over past year

• Europeans turning more often to charities for food

• Belarus plans to introduce biometric passports in 2021

• Belarus simplifies procedure for obtaining citizenship

• Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan will fight illegal migration together

• Some politicians in Sweden advocate easing immigration laws

• Tajikistan loses half of migrant transfers

• The newspapers write about…

• BUSINESS Online on the demographic development of Russia

• Kommersant, IQ, Moskovsky Komsomolets and Frankfurter Allgemeine on statistics on morbidity and mortality from coronavirus

• La Repubblica and Russkaya sluzhba BBC on the mysteries of the spread of coronavirus

• Polit.Ru and The Washington Post on factors in the spread of Coronavirus

• Project Syndicate and Gazeta.Ru on women during the pandemic

• Argumenty i Fakty, Russkaya sluzhba BBC and Nezavisimaya Gazeta on Coronavirus in Brazil

• The New York Times on collective immunity

• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on myths surrounding Coronavirus

• Russkaya sluzhba BBC on political risks in fight against Coronavirus

• RBK and Helsingin Sanomat on the situation of migrants

• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the values ??of Russians

• Vechernyaya Moskva on family relationships

• Rossiyskaya Gazeta, The Village and Novaya Gazeta on family and children

• N+1 on marriage among the Old Believers

• Gazeta.ru on fertility of Finnish women after the war

• Der Spiegel on Robert Koch

• Suddeutsche Zeitung on self-isolation

Read books and magazines

• On the 75th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945

• World Health Statistics 2020: monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development goals

• Serbia. Health Systems in Transition

• How’s life? 2020. Measuring well?being

• Prevalence of risk factors for noncommunicable diseases in Turkmenistan. Steps 2018

• Through the pages of the magazines ORGZDRAV: Novosti, mneniya, obucheniye. Vestnik VShOUZ (ORGZDRAV: news, opinions, training. Bulletin of the Higher School of Education) and Rossiyskiy Onkologicheskiy Zhurnal (Russian Oncological Journal)

• Contents of Population Studies

Profession: researcher

• The COVID-19 epidemic: what should be the response of healthcare. Research Seminar of the Institute of Demography, HSE "Demographic Challenges of the 21st Century"

• o G. Ulumbekova. Soviet healthcare in the Great Patriotic War: lessons for Russian healthcare. Proposals for its reform. Presentation

• o G. Ulumbekova. COVID-19: key points and lessons for healthcare. Presentation

• Demographic Sessions at the 21st April International Scientific Conference of the Higher School of Economics

• 70 years since the birth of Nikolai Borisovich Barkalov

• o Student recollections

• o An expanded list of publications by N.B. Barkalov

• o N. Barkalov. Expected probabilities of family enlargement according to the 1994 microcensus

• Congratulations to Frans Willekens on prestigious award