Privatisation and mortality in Russia

The Lancet Public Health. 2017. Vol. 2. No. 5. P. e207–e208.

Vlassov V., Vishnevsky A.

In studies of massive changes in social life, researchers often have to rely on low-quality retrospective data such as memoirs and manipulated government reports as opposed to reliable data such as vital registration. The dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 was an unpredictable event with large-scale consequences for the lives of millions of Russians. Beginning in the 1960s, the Soviet Union started to fall into a deep demographic crisis.1 The end of Communism was accompanied by a further increase in total mortality, with unprecedented fluctuations during the next two decades. Several studies were done in a bid to explain this.2

Keywords: демография, социальные реформы, demography, social reforms, эпидемиология, epidemiology

Publication based on the results of: The transformation of the structure of the health workforce and motivation of medical personnel under the influence of economic, technological factors and state human resources policy (2016)