DEMOGRAPHIC SITUATION IN RUSSIA: MEDICAL AND SOCIAL ASPECTS

Some Aspects of Medical Education in Russia

Some aspects of medical education in Russia are discussed in this report. After the 6-year undergraduate education, a 2-year postgraduate program without a preceding internship is the usual way to become a medical specialist. Besides, the specialist certificates can be obtained after a 1-year internship. Shortages of education, limited availability of foreign professional literature and partial...

Social aspects of alcohol consumption in Russia.

To the Editor: South African readers of the SAMJ may be interested to know that some recently described features of alcohol consumption1-3 appear too in parts of Russia, where there are similar factors that predispose to alcohol abuse: relative cheapness of alcoholic products, ease of access, boredom, unemployment, peer pressure, etc.1 Concerning alcohol advertising,2 there has not been much ad...

Demographic and Social Aspects of Consanguinity

Objectives: In a single Muslim village in Israel, established about 300 years ago by a small number of founders, a longitudinal study was conducted on the types of marriages and their effects on family planning, with the age at which a woman had her first child and the size of the family assessed. Methods: The information for the analysis was extracted from a detailed database including individ...

The Demographic Crisis in Russia

The demographic situation in Croatia.

"In this paper [the] authors discuss demographic features in Croatia [from] the [second] half of the 19th century till 1996, paying special attention to the period since [the] early fifties onwards. Beside...population migration, vital statistics, projections and population development programs have been analysed. It is possible to compare Croatia with some European countries...." (EXCERPT)