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World demographic barometer

Alcohol and world population health, 2018 WHO estimates

• In 2016, 5.3% of all deaths and 5.1% of the disease burden were related to alcohol consumption.

• Alcohol-related losses are highest in the European Region of the WHO.

• Men account for 77% of deaths and 80% of the burden of alcohol-related diseases.

• The mortality and burden of alcohol-related diseases is higher in lower-income countries

• Russia is in the 20% of countries with the highest loss of years of life due to alcohol consumption

• The proportion of alcohol-related deaths has decreased compared to 2010, the proportion of the burden of disease has remained the same

Take care of women!

• The World Health Assembly has endorsed ICD-11. Conditions related to gender identity are no longer considered a mental disorder.

• In Eastern Europe and Central Asia the number of new HIV cases has increased by 30 percent since 2010

• New reproductive health information resource in Europe

In the vastness of Russia

• The number of economically active Russians over year has decreased by a million people

• Did the World Cup influence the birth rate in Moscow?

• Implementation of more than 20% of national projects has not yet begun

• Ministry of Labor has proposed reform of Pension Fund

• Pensioners can spend no more than 200 rubles a day on food

• Bill on payment of non-state pensions at ages 55 and 60 submitted to the State Duma

• 18% of Russians have complained about salary cuts

• Ministry of Justice records sharp increase in number of marriage contracts

• Long-term care for the elderly and disabled may become part of the social insurance system

• State Duma approves bill on compensation for large families with mortgages

• Ministry of Justice proposes to introduce new type of alimony for parents

• 38% of domestic companies are ready to hire persons of retirement age

• In Russia, a serious shortage of doctors and teachers

• Russia’s most promising professions

• Russians admit to disliking Moscow, but want to become Muscovites

• Highly qualified personnel leaving Kamchatka

• State Duma shortens term for obtaining Russian citizenship for specialists

• Russians drinking more often

• Ministry of Health considers the freezing of excise taxes to be the reason for the decrease in the number of non-drinkers

• Ministry of Health to calculate how much alcohol Russians drink on vacation

• Ministry of Health supports ban of hookahs in restaurants and cafes

• Mortality in Russia from strokes and heart attacks in recent years has decreased by half

• Plan to include human papillomavirus in the national calendar of preventive vaccinations

• In Russia, 14% of men and 26% of women are obese

• Russians are ready to consult a doctor remotely more often than other Europeans

• Muscovites will be able to receive medical test results by e-mail

• Almost 40% of Russians are willing to pay for medical services

• One in two Russians does not support discrimination against LGBT community

• Russians most often name children by a name they like, and not in someone’s honor

World news

• By 2050, about 70% of the world's population will live in cities

• The population of Tajikistan for the year increased by 2.1%

• Last year the population of Latvia decreased by 14.4 thousand people

• Life expectancy in China has increased by 42 years over past 70 years

• Estonian government will fight poverty and increase fertility

• Spain has more pets than children under 15

• Finnish teenagers can no longer marry by special permission

• “Father” and “Mother” returned to Italian birth certificates

• Work history of pensioners in EAEU countries will include all activity on the Union’s territory

• Belarusian authorities plan to extend family capital program for another five years

• Almost 1.9 million people have left Turkmenistan over 10 years

• Czech Republic doubles quotas for Ukrainian labor migrants

• New migrants from Central America continue to arrive in Mexico

• All money sent by labor migrants to Kirgizia goes to the consumer sector

• Is it hard for Estonians to integrate in Finland?

• Belarus plans to bring HIV epidemic under control by 2023

• 2 million smokers in Belarus

• Alabama abortion ban is challenged in court

• Missouri signs law banning abortion from the eighth week of pregnancy

• Pope compares abortion to hiring a hit man

• Kazakhstanis can get three kinds of free cancer screenings

• Bullying children because of their weight makes them even fatter

• In Brazil, homophobia and transphobia have been equated with racism

The newspapers write about…

• Sovershenno Sekretno on handing out passports to Ukrainians

• Deutsche Welle on the need for migrants

• Materik on the migration situation in Russia

• Trud on Russians in Kazakhstan

• Helsingin Sanomat on Finns in St. Petersburg

• Helsingin Sanomat on the migration crisis in Europe

• Delfi on emigration from Latvia

• Azatlyk on emigration from Turkmenistan

• RBK and EurasiaNet on urban development

• Delfi on the Lithuania village

• Moskovsky Komsomolets on political demography

• Life, Vechernyaya Moskva and Izvestia twice on a paternal capital

• Izvestia on male contraception

• Moskovsky Komsomolets on abortions in the USA

• NOZh on sexual consent

• Baijiahao on inter-ethnic marriages

• Russkaya Sluzhba BBC on Caucasian wedding traditions

• Novye Izvestiya, Nakanune.RU, RBK twice, Kommersant, Moskovsky Komsomolets, Die Welt and La Stampa on poverty and income decline

• Svobodnaya Pressa and Moskovsky Komsomolets on pension reform

• Izvestiya on the work of the Ministry of Health

• Kommersant and Novye Izvestiya on HIV

• The Daily Beast on Russian genes

• Russkaya Sluzhba BBC, The American Spectator and the Pew Research Center on LGBT

Read books and magazines

• Bashkortostan in numbers

• Global Hepatitis Report, 2017

• The state of oncological care in Russia in 2018

• Belarus: family structure, family relations, reproductive behavior

• The health situation of children and adolescents in Europe

• Through the pages of the journals Sotsiologicheskie Issledovaniya (Sociological Studies) and Profilakticheskaya Meditsina (Preventive Medicine)

• Contents of the Journal of International Migration and Integration

Profession: researcher

• Spatial inequality in mortality by causes of death in Europe: empirical data and directions for further research. Scientific seminar “Modern Demography” of the International Laboratory for Population and Health Research, HSE

• Birthday greetings to Zhanna Antonovna Zayonchkovskaya in prose and verse