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World demographic barometer

Health costs in OECD countries, 2019

• The relationship between health care quality and spending is not always clear

• OECD economies average about $4,000 PPP per person per year, or 9% of GDP

• 60% of healthcare costs go to inpatient and outpatient care

Q&A

• Coronavirus: the fight goes on!

• Coronavirus: fears of Russians

• Most Russians are against banning unvaccinated children from school

• Employment during the pandemic

• The lockdown has strengthened twice as many families as it has destroyed

In the vastness of Russia

• Rosstat estimates RSFSR population loss from World War II

• Ministry of Health announces decrease in mortality in first quarter

• The number of deaths in Moscow in April reached 10-year high

• Golikova says Russia does not manipulate coronavirus mortality statistics

• Is mortality from COVID-19 among doctors in Russia 16 times higher than in other countries?

• WHO explains low mortality from coronavirus in Russia

• In Russia, the number of divorces has decreased amid the crisis

• Disputes about a post-quarantine baby boom in Russia continue

• HSE predicts 20% drop in household income by July

• Ministry of Labor decides to reduce the size of funded pension

• Families with children under three years old will receive an additional 5 thousand rubles per month

• Russia facing record unemployment

• Ministry of Labor decides to simplify conditions for early retirement

• Has up to 19% of the population left Russia’s largest cities?

• Internal migration in Russia will not be reduced in the long run

• Moody’s experts predict growth of migration within Russia due to pandemic

• Russia has begun granting citizenship 2.5 times more often

• Russia to start issuing residence permits to purchasers of real estate

• Will coronavirus in Russia continue actively spreading until summer?

• In Russia, increased deaths from alcohol consumption amid pandemic

• Government extends sick leave for citizens over 65

• Ministry of Health chief recognizes need for reform of compulsory medical insurance system

• Demand for doctors is growing in state medical institutions

• In Russia, scheduled vaccinations suspended due to coronavirus

• Golikova tells regions to take care of the homeless

• Ministry of Internal Affairs considers decriminalization of domestic violence justified

• One in four Russians has put on weight in lockdown

World news

• The causes of the pandemic will be jointly investigated by more than 120 countries

• Had coronavirus already spread around the world at the end of 2019?

• Latin America turning into new coronavirus epicenter

• WHO warns of second wave of coronavirus pandemic

• In northeast China a new outbreak of COVID-19

• Black British and Asian people are at higher risk of dying from COVID-19

• In Italy’s Bergamo province mortality increased by 568%

• Sweden admits April mortality rate to be highest since 1993

• Could US authorities have prevented 54 thousand deaths from coronavirus?

• The most dangerous profession during coronavirus is a guard

• Quarantine will not lead to previously predicted baby boom

• Pandemic could put 60 million people in extreme poverty

• The population of Ukraine is 41,830,600 people

• Citizens of Ukraine banned from traveling to Belarus with internal passports

• Puerto Rico to hold referendum on joining the United States

• EU expects illegal migration to increase after COVID restrictions are relaxed

• UN calls for migrants to be included in national healthcare systems

• 20 thousand Italians wanted to gather the harvest instead of migrants

• Migrants transferred $2.9 billion to Ukraine in first quarter

• Coronavirus pandemic will increase AIDS mortality

• EU and UK introduce ban on sale of menthol cigarettes

The newspapers write about...

• Stern, Russkaya sluzhba BBC, CNN, Rossiyskaya Gazeta and Medusa on coronavirus in Russia

• Novaya Gazeta, Kommersant, Russkaya sluzhba BBC, Le Temps, Financial Times, The New York Times, The Guardian, El País, France Info, Frankfurter Allgemeine on coronavirus mortality statistics

• Kommersant and Novaya Gazeta on the adequacy of PPE supplies in pharmacies and hospitals

• Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Novaya Gazeta and RBK on state support during the coronavirus

• Kommersant, Slate.fr, Izvestia and Medusa on the work of physicians

• Kommersant on the demographic traces of the war

• Dagens Nyheter on coronavirus in Europe

• Russkaya sluzhba BBC on coronavirus in the UK

• State.fr on end-of-coronavirus scenarios

• Asharq Al-Awsat and The Wall Street Journal on a coronavirus vaccine

• Le Figaro on criticism of WHO

• Novaya Gazeta on the role of migration in the spread of coronavirus

• Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Moskovsky Komsomolets, NEWS.ru, and Novye Izvestia on migration and migrants during coronavirus

• The Conversation on migrants in the British Army

• Gazeta.Ru on anti-vaxxers

• State.fr on suicide

• Russkaya sluzhba BBC on alcohol consumption

• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on poverty and inequality

• RBK on analyzing data on Muscovites

• Russkaya sluzhba BBC on abortion in Poland

• Forbes on maternity

• Polit.ru on the price of human life

• State.fr on ageism in the time of coronavirus

• Le Figaro on rural life after coronavirus

• Izvestiya on pensions

• Big Think on stress in modern generations

Read books and magazines

• Sustainable Development Goals Report 2019

• European regional status report on road safety 2019

• World population policies 2017. Abortion laws and policies

• Society at a glance: Asia/Pacific 2019

• Demographic aging in the Republic of Belarus: challenges and new opportunities

• Through the pages of the magazines Demograficheskoye Obozreniye (Demographic Review) and Akusherstvo i Ginekologiya (Obstetrics and Gynecology)

• Content of Studies in Family Planning

Profession: researcher

• "When it rains it pours: consecutive weather shocks and mortality in Russia." Research Seminar of the Institute of Demography, HSE "Demographic Challenges of the 21st Century"

• Migration in small and medium-sized cities of Russia: the main trajectories and unresolved issues. Research Seminar of the HSE Institute for Social Policy “Migration Studies”

• School segregation is carried out by a city’s residents themselves. Research Seminar of the Institute of Education, HSE

• Methodological approaches to assessing mortality from COVID-19 in France. Scientific seminar of the Center for the Study of Population Problems, Faculty of Economics, Moscow State University Lomonosov

• In memory of Evgeny Naumovich Pertsik

• Nikolay Petrov. On the passing of Evgeny Naumovich Pertsik

  • List of books by E.N. Pertsik