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Demographic barometer

• Morbidity in Russia, 2021-2022
  • In 2021, morbidity increased in all major classes of diseases
  • In 2022, the incidence of acute respiratory viral infections continued to grow, increasing by 10% compared to 2021
  • The incidence of acute intestinal infections increased by 22%
  • TB incidence continued to decline in 2022, HIV incidence slightly increased
  • In 2021, the incidence of alcoholism among the population of Russia continued to decrease, the incidence of drug addiction and substance abuse slightly increased

Q&A

• Reproductive health: male and female perspectives
• Will men want to take hormonal contraception: a British survey
• How Russians assess their country’s cities
• Finding a job is easiest for Russians aged 27-29, hardest for those aged 57-59
• How Russians feel about the Russian Orthodox Church

In the vastness of Russia

• Life expectancy topped 73 years in February
• Mortality in the first months of 2023 decreased by 21.5%
• Russia has significant lack of data to analyze its demographic processes
• Most orphans in Moscow live in foster families
• Support measures helped 37% of Russian women decide to have a first child
• Nutritional quality of one in five Russians has deteriorated over past year
• In Russia, the share of young workers falls to minimum since the early 1990s
• Putin declares worker shortage in many areas
• Kremlin rules out new wave of emigration due to electronic draft notices
• Russia to launch pilot unified migration monitoring system
• Investigative Committee chief reports increase in number of serious cases against migrants
• The number of smokers in Russia decreased by 6% in 2022
• State Duma adopts law on increasing fines for the sale of cigarettes and vapes to children
• Mortality from cardiovascular diseases decreased by 10% compared to 2019
• Russia records sharp increase in infectious diseases
• Rospotrebnadzor opens vaccination "hot line" for various infections
• Risks of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome can be reduced
• Ministry of Health supports idea of tightening sale of medical alcohol

World News

• India to overtake China in population by mid-year
• Fertility in Italy falls to lowest level in 160 years
• South Korean government to help socialize single young people
• 80% of applications for work permits in Serbia in March were submitted by Russians
• In 2022, 174,000 migrants from Belarus worked in Russia
• 300% more refugees arrived in Italy this year than last year
• Bill Gates Foundation invests $5 million in experimental HIV treatment
• E-cigarettes with menthol damage the lungs more than regular cigarettes
• In 2021, almost 71,000 Americans died from an overdose of drugs from Mexico
• New approach to fighting tuberculosis drug resistance developed
• WHO calls for urgent action to reduce child mortality in Afghanistan
• More than 40,000 cases of dengue fever confirmed in Argentina
• Moderna and Merck announce progress in mRNA vaccine against skin cancer
• In ranking of most dangerous cities in terms of crime, British cities are found most often.

The newspapers write about…

• Kommersant and RBK on compensatory migration
• RBK on the growth of job offers abroad for Russians
• RBK on the leaching of young people from the labor market
• Izvestia on fertility stimulation policy
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on a decline in the number of maternity capital certificates issued
• Novye Izvestia on a rise in the number of divorces
• Project Syndicate and Lenta.ru on China's demographic situation
• RBK on the positive and negative effects of pension reform
• Vedomosti on proposal to give unemployed pre-pensioners early pensions
• RIA Novosti on the human age limit
• Kommersant on mass medical examinations
• Uncut-News on (un)proven link between coronavirus vaccine and premature death
• Kommersant on risk group anti-vaxxers
• Kommersant on anti-vaxxers
• Kommersant on the availability of hepatitis C treatment for people living with HIV
• Izvestia on tasks to make prosthetics more available
• Izvestia on poverty
• Forbes on the decline of ageism

Read books and magazines

• Tuberculosis surveillance and monitoring in Europe. 2023 2021 data
• Population and demographic processes 2021
• Infertility prevalence estimates, 1990-2021
• IV All-Russian Demographic Forum with international participation
• Pensions at a glance Asia/Pacific 2022
• Through the pages of the journals Problemy sotsialnoy gigieny, zdravookhraneniya i istorii meditsiny (Problems of social hygiene, health care and the history of medicine) and Problemy prognozirovaniya (Problems of forecasting)
• Contents of the European Journal of Population

Profession: researcher

• Why are life expectancy losses of women during covid greater than those of men in Russia? Seminar of the HSE International Laboratory for Population and Health Research
• "Alcohol mortality in Russia: 1965-2020". Seminar of the A.G. Vishnevsky Institute of Demography of the NRU HSE "Demographic Challenges of the 21st Century"
• 100 years since the birth of Georgy Mikhailovich Lappo