Informal payments for health care in the former Soviet Union: some evidence from Kazakstan

Understanding population health: lessons from the former Soviet Union.

The collapse of the Soviet Union was a massive natural experiment that has provided many insights that help our understanding of the determinants of population health. This paper identifies a series of lessons learnt from this experience: (1) Rapid transition can damage health. (2) When undertaking comparative research, it is essential to have a common understanding of what different terms mean...

Some aspects of medical education in the former Soviet Union.

Mental health inequalities in 9 former Soviet Union countries: evidence from the previous decade.

In the previous two decades, countries of the former Soviet Union underwent substantive economic and social changes. While there has been some limited evidence on the relationship between socioeconomic well-being and mental health in the developing and transitional economies, the evidence on economic inequalities in mental health has so far been scarce. In this paper, we analyse two unique data...

Health service utilization in the former soviet union: evidence from eight countries.

BACKGROUND In the past decade, the countries that emerged from the Soviet Union have experienced major changes in the inherited Soviet model of health care, which was centrally planned and provided universal, free access to basic care. The underlying principle of universality remains, but coexists with new funding and delivery systems and growing out-of-pocket payments. OBJECTIVE To examine p...

Thrusts in the Former Soviet Union

A revolutionary approach to identifying pervasive thrust areas (and their relationships) in large textual databases was applied to a compendium of assessments of applied research areas in the Former Soviet Union (FSU) generated by the Foreign Applied Sciences Assessment Center (FASAC). Related thrust areas were combined to yield the following major thrust groupings: IONOSPHERIC HEATING/ MODIFIC...