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Current topic: Mortality and life expectancy in Russia: What’s new? Part one.

  • The falling number of deaths has come to a halt

  • The restorative growth of life expectancy has not yet overcome the lag behind developed countries

  • To what ages and causes of death is the growth in life expectancy due

  • Regional aspects of Russian mortality

  • Appendix. Table. Changes in life expectancy at birth in 2014 in the Russian regions

  • Links to related topics

  • Topics of previous issues

Russia demographic barometer

  • Morbidity of the population of Russia, 2014-2015

  • In 2014, the disease incidence rate decreased

  • In 2015, the incidence of acute respiratory viral infections increased, while the incidence of acute intestinal infections and hepatitis decreased

  • In 2015, the number of reported cases of HIV infection exceeded the number of new cases of active tuberculosis by 11%

  • In 2014, incidence of primary drug abuse rose, and the incidence of adolescent drug and substance abuse continued to grow

  • In 2015 23,000 people died in road accidents, and 230,000 were injured

Through the eyes of the analysts

  • Operational statistical information about the population: possibilities and limitations

  • Life expectancy in Russia and factors affecting it

  • Factors of mortality from external causes and ways to reduce it: interviews with experts

Take care of women!

  • The lowest level of inequality among children is in Denmark – the highest, in Israel and Turkey

  • New video course “Gender for Dummies”

  • Resource for those who work with young people

In the vastness of Russia

  • By 2020, the population in Russia is expected to grow to 147.5 million

  • Medvedev announces “record” life expectancy in the Russian Federation

  • Average life expectancy of Russians should be 75 years

  • Life expectancy in Moscow could reach 80 years by 2020

  • In Russia, the difference in life expectancy between men and women has decreased

  • Will the natural increase of the population of Russia continue until 2020?

  • Putin has been asked to create Ministry of Demography

  • Will raising the retirement age have only a slight effect?

  • GDP growth in Russia is impossible without an increase in productivity

  • The number of poor is growing at the fastest pace over the last 17 years

  • Wage arrears in Russia over the last month have increased by a third

  • Duma does not consider tax on childlessness a means of increasing fertility

  • Ministry of Labor proposes to extend maternity capital program beyond 2018

  • Ministry of Labor will begin issuing maternity capital certificate electronically

  • Russian-Finnish border closed to refugees

  • Medvedev thanks State Duma for tougher immigration laws

  • In Russia, 50% of men and 17% of women smoke

  • Ministry of Health announces increase in the incidence of type 2 diabetes

  • Infant mortality rate in Moscow has fallen by 30% over last five years

  • New norms developed for the arrival of ambulances

  • Over half of children with rare diseases are registered as disabled persons

  • Head of Duma committee opposes payments to those choosing not to abort

  • Russian Orthodox Church calls for punishing doctors encouraging women to abort

  • Russia’s population needs information about hemophilia

  • Workplace injuries fall sharply in Russia

  • People should be required to take care of their health

  • Government calls Ministry of Health’s work in 2015 “good”

Eurasian panorama

  • Population of Kazakhstan as of March 2016 came to 17.7 million people

  • Population of Moldova is decreasing

  • Armenia has lost a million people of working-age over the last quarter of a century

  • 2015 was a record year in Belarus in the number of newborns

  • Natural increase of the population of Kirgizia in 2015 was 128,6000 people

  • Mortality in Ukraine is one of the highest in Europe

  • The “oldest” region of Belarus is the Vitebsk region

  • Lukashenko signs decree on raising the retirement age

  • Census data of Moldova will be presented 3 years after it has been conducted

  • Purchasing power of working population in Ukraine has decreased by 25.4% over past two years

  • One in two pensioners in Moldova doesn’t have enough money to live on

  • In Kirgizia, almost one woman in seven aged 15-19 is married

  • People in Armenia and Georgia are particularly concerned about unemployment and poverty

  • Level of registered unemployment in Belarus came to 1.2%

  • Kirgizia to attract 552 foreign specialists by quota

  • EU to provide Armenia with 10 million euros to address the problems of refugees

  • Ukrainian workers have transferred $30 billion to their homeland over last five years

  • In Belarus, 645 cases of HIV infection diagnosed from January to March

  • Number of diabetics in Moldova has increased by half over past ten years

  • In 2015, about 3 thousand children under one year of age died in Kirgizia

  • Maternal mortality in Kazakhstan has decreased by 84% over past 25 years

  • Women in Georgia often become surrogate mothers for foreigners

  • Abkhazia bans abortion

  • In Georgia, patients with hepatitis C will be provided medicines

  • Georgian Interior Ministry has developed project to combat domestic violence

World news

  • The number of international migrants in the world is 244 million

  • Remittances of migrants to developing countries has exceeded $460 billion

  • Lithuania’s population could shrink to two million people

  • Latvia has lost nearly half of its young people

  • Fertility in Finland has dropped to historic lows

  • The reasons for the differences in income between men and women have been identified

  • Lithuania will accelerate issuance of residence permits to skilled foreigners

  • Norway to protect living standards with stringent migration laws

  • More and more foreigners coming to Poland from Ukraine

  • Israel has published information about the emigration of Russian-speaking citizens from the country

  • European Union fears new wave of migration from Libya

  • Over last three months 181,000 asylum applications filed by refugees in Germany

  • Latvia plans to take in 30 refugees per month

  • EU needs extra $15 billion to solve refugee problem

  • Hollande pledges 100 million euros to Lebanon for refugees

  • Pope calls refugee crisis one of the biggest disasters

  • In Denmark, migrants abandoning Islam and converting to Christianity

  • Arabic is the second most common language in Sweden

  • Biased media coverage of migrant crime

  • Europeans spend 24 billion euros annually on drugs

  • One in 12 people in world have diabetes

  • In Thailand, drunk drivers will be sent to work in morgue

  • In Poland, a move to ban abortions completely

  • European scientists recommend giving birth later in life

  • Infant mortality in Israel is one of the lowest in the world

  • Does marriage increase the chances of beating cancer?

  • Pope allows divorced people to receive holy sacraments

  • Mississippi law protects believers from claims of sexual minorities

  • Columbia legalizes same-sex marriage

The newspapers write about…

  • “Polit.ru” on life expectancy in Russia

  • “RBK” on life expectancy and well-being

  • “Polit.ru” and “Kommersant” on Russia’s demographic successes

  • “Fakty” on mortality on Ukraine’s roads

  • “Golos Armenii” on a National project to improve the demographic situation in Armenia

  • “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on summing up meeting of Russia’s Ministry of Health Board

  • “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on the problems of emergency care

  • “Russkaya Planeta” on limiting the access of the elderly to doctors

  • “Novaya gazeta” on the failure of the “Zemstvo Doctor” program

  • “Die Welt” on the medical mafia in Germany

  • “Der Spiegel” on the problem of diabetes

  • “Goteborgs-Posten” on a stroke gene

  • “Dagens Nyheter” on the global drug problem

  • “Komsomolskaya Pravda” on the demographic problems of Bashkortostan

  • “Kommersant” on Russia’s human capital

  • “Izvestiya” on Russia’s pension system

  • “Vedomosti” on the retirement age in Russia and Belarus

  • “Novosti Belarusi” on raising the retirement age in Belarus

  • “Izvestiya” on a register of disabled persons

  • “Kommersant” and “Deutsche Welle” on the transfer of the Federal Migration Service to the Interior Ministry

  • “Kommersant” on invitations from employers for migrant workers

  • “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on migration as a global problem

  • “Berlingske” on the pitfalls of multiculturalism

  • “Atlantico” on refugees and violence

  • “Kommersant” on the influx of migrants into the UK

  • “Der Spiegel” on missing refugee children

  • “RBK”, “Vedomosti” and “Kommersant FM” on the migration intentions of high school graduates in small towns

  • “Novosti Belarusi” on jobs for Belarusian graduates

  • “Vedomosti” on low-cost rental housing

  • “AmurPRESS” on moving Chinese enterprises to Russia’s Far East

  • “Slon.ru” on social inequality and the crisis

  • “Novaya gazeta” on adapting to the crisis

  • “Asia-Plus” on youth unemployment in Tajikistan

  • “RBK” on gender equality

  • “Radio Svoboda” on the rights of women in the republics of the North Caucasus

  • “Atlantico” on interclass marriages

  • “Gazeta.ru” on a code of rules for Catholic families

  • “Russkaya sluzhba BBC” on penalties for clients of prostitutes

Read books and magazines

  • Growing up unequal: gender and socioeconomic differences in young people's health and well-being

  • Tuberculosis surveillance and monitoring in Europe 2016

  • United Kingdom. Health Systems in Transition

  • Public health and health care in the Kyrgyz Republic. 2010-2014

  • The impact of globalization and WTO membership on the quality of life of the population of the BRICS countries

  • Through the pages of the magazines “Demograficheskoye obozreniye” (“Demographic Review”) and “Ekologiya cheloveka” (“Human ecology”)

  • Contents of the journal “Demography”

New in the reading room

  • A.R. Vyatkin. Developing countries of the East: a demographic forecast

Demographic digest

  • The role of smoking in changes in the survival curve: an empirical study in 10 European countries

  • The adoption of smoking and its effect on the mortality gender gap in Netherlands: A historical perspective

  • The role of smoking on mortality compression: An analysis of Finnish occupational social classes, 1971-2010

  • The contribution of a history of heavy smoking to Scotland’s mortality disadvantage

  • The global war on smoking

Profession: researcher

  • Demography at the XVII April International Scientific Conference of HSE

  • The effectiveness of demographic policy: methods of evaluation. Meeting of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists of the RAS

  • Happy birthday to Leonid Leonidovich Rybakovsky

  • 70 years since the birth of Anatoly Rudolfovich Vyatkin

  • Alexander Petrovich Katrovsky turns 60!

 
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