Adult mortality has been lower in Kyrgyzstan vs. Russia among males since at least 1981 and among females since 1999. Also, Kyrgyzstan's mortality fluctuations have had smaller amplitude. This has occurred in spite of worse macro-economic outcomes in Kyrgyzstan. To understand these surprising patterns, we analyzed cause-specific mortality in Kyrgyzstan vs. Russia for the period 1981-2010, using...

BACKGROUND The 2009 H1N1 pandemic highlighted the need to routinely monitor severe influenza, which lead to the establishment of sentinel hospital-based surveillance of severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) in several countries in Europe. The objective of this study is to describe characteristics of SARI patients and to explore risk factors for a severe outcome in influenza-positive SARI p...

This study has examined the causality relationship between public expenditures, economic growth and income inequality for transition economies called Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). In study, in which 1998-2019 period was analyzed, effects expenditures on were determined with bootstrap panel test. Bootstrap test results show that there is a one-way from to Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan...

with the dissolution of the soviet :union:, the newly formed independent states believed that their economic problems are rooted from the communist economic policies. thus, they leaned towards free market economic system. the movement of such nations during the economic transition period has a close relationship with globalization. globalization itself has close ties with players in the interna...

Introduction: Disaster medicine education is a huge challenge, but essential to disaster preparedness. While natural disasters have always been part of world events, recent large-scale and man-made drawn attention medicine. As consequence, medical schools in many parts the begun incorporate disaster-related topics into their curricula. However, territory former USSR, has just its development, a...

The article examines the foreign policy, main priorities and economic direction of United States in South Caucasus region. geopolitical, geostrategic geo-economic role general system international relations is highlighted. analyzes current state bilateral political between Azerbaijan, Armenia Georgia.

political geographic changes of the caspian region due to the independence of the states of the soviet :union: in 1991, has created changes in the geopolitical situation. iran and russia's policies in order to maintain and extend their dominance on the region, and the performance of azerbaijan, turkmenistan and kazakhstan in the field of economic progress, to achieve greater independence a...

The paper studies the labor markets of 23 transition countries from eastern and central Europe—Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, East Germany, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, and Yugoslavia. It uses new micro-data from a large number of surveys on over 200,0...