Health and health care in the new Russia

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Health and health care in the new Russia

edited by Nick Manning, Nataliya Tikhonova ; translations by Karen George

Ashgate, c2009

  • : hardcover

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-306) and index

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Description

This volume explores the nature of health and health-care experiences in Russia by comparing societies and communities with different socio-cultural conditions. The unique use of longitudinal data collected over ten years, allows the authors to address key questions on Russians individual experiences of health care and their understanding of its influencing factors. They explore the methods of self treatment and illness prevention in combination with the effects poverty and treatment availability can have on the standards of living for the people surveyed. This pertinent issue follows a time of rapidly worsening health status amongst the Russian population and a grave decline in male life expectancy. The findings are set within the context of experience from Finland and the UK, allowing the authors to explore the challenge of the Russian health-care crisis to Western European models of health status and health care.

Table of Contents

  • Contents: Preface
  • Social policy and the health crisis in the new Russia, Nadia Davidova, Nick Manning, Hannele Palosuo and Meri Koivusalo. Part I Health Beliefs in the New Russia: Measuring the population's health, Nataliya Tikhonova
  • Understanding health, Svetlana Goryunova and Nataliya Tikhonova. Part II Health and Social Structure: Inequalities and health, Nataliya Tikhonova
  • Poverty in post-reform Russia, Nadia Davidova
  • Poverty and health: the longitudinal experience, Nadia Davidova
  • Health and employment, Inna Nazarova. Part III Health and Social Action: Access to health care and self-care, Inna Nazarova
  • Health behaviour, Irina Popova
  • Gender, health and poverty, Irina Popova
  • Life stories in 10 Russian households: the sequence of events over 10 years of reform, Nadia Davidova ( with linking material by Karen George)
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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