THE TWO EARLIER ARTICLES IN THIS THREE-PART SERIES focused on the linguistic situation in Belarus and on factors instrumental in shaping Belarusian identity. However, no attempt at understanding Belarus can succeed without examining its economic dynamics and political discourse. The analysis that follows will evaluate Belarus’ accomplishments under the Soviet regime. The point is made that the ...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of asthma and other allergic diseases among children living in Eastern is not well described. Our objective was to estimate and compare the prevalence of asthma, respiratory symptoms and allergic diseases in children in Belarus, Ukraine, and Poland as well as to identify risk factors for these conditions. We also sought to profile and compare children with asthma betwe...

Alexander M. Krot, Mikhail A. Shcherbakov and Polina P. Tkachova Institute of Engineering Cybernetics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Surganov Str., 6, 220012, Minsk, Belarus e-mail: [email protected] Tel.: (375) 172 842086, Fax.: (375) 172 318403 State Technical University of Penza Krasnaya Str., 40, 440017, Penza, Russia Belarusian State University Skoriny av. 4, 2...

The present study examines how growing socio-economic inequalities in transitional countries that have followed different health policy paths affect women's access to reproductive health care. I conducted surveys in Kazakhstan and Belarus and used logistic regression analyses to determine accessibility to and satisfaction with reproductive health services, reproductive status, and reproductive ...

There is a paucity of data on the prevalence of alcohol use and related problems among foreign students in Belarus. We therefore screen for the prevalence of alcohol related problems among the general foreign students’ population in Minsk, Belarus. Participants were 135 male university foreign students (average age – 21) from three major universities in Minsk, Belarus. All respondents were admi...

1 Mycobacteriology Research Centre(MRC), National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (NRITLD), WHO; UNION Collaborating Centre for TB and Lung Diseases, Shahid Beheshti University (Medical Campus), Darabad, Tehran, Iran. 2 The Republican Research and Practical Centre for Epidemiology and Microbiology, Minsk, Belarus. 3 Institute for Chemistry of New Materials, Belarus National ...

BELARUS IS SITUATED AT A CROSSROAD OF NATURAL BORDERS OF SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS: the NE part is situated in a taiga zone, whereas the other part of terrain is in the European forest zone. The distance of Belarus to the steppe zone is about 330 kilometers. This geographical position and the extensive knowledge of its fauna can be used to monitor changes in the distribution of different species. A...

ISSN 0931-4288 No. 626-627, Feb. 7, 2013 www.strahlentelex.de English version Increased leukemia rates in children from Belarus after Chernobyl Alfred Körblein [email protected] February 2013 A trend analysis of data from Belarus finds a statistically significant 33% increase in the incidence of leukemia in children in 1987, following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 (RR=1.33; P=0.0...

Assessing the spatial distribution of organisms across landscapes is a key step toward determining processes that produce observed patterns. The spatial distribution of an invasive aquatic mollusk, the zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha), was examined in two lake-rich areas (Belarus and midwestern United States) with contrasting invasion histories. Spatial distribution patterns of invaded lakes...