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Health in Russia deteriorated rapidly following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and particularly for men, as a result of social and economic changes. [1]The Human Rights Measurement Initiative [2] finds that Russia is able to fulfil 78.0% of the requirements for basic health, in relation to Russian income levels.
Healthcare in Russia, [a] or the Russian Federation, [b] is provided by the state through the Federal Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund, and regulated through the Ministry of Health. [1] The Constitution of the Russian Federation has provided all citizens the right to free healthcare since 1993.
Annual estimates of life expectancy are provided by the World Health Organization. [3] According to the WHO, healthy life expectancy (HALE) in Russia in 2019 was 64.2 years: 60.7 for men and 67.5 for women. [4] Also according to the WHO, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus exhibit the world's highest difference in life expectancy between women and men. [3]
Map of total public and private health expenditure per person (see year above map). [1] This article includes 2 lists of countries of the world and their total expenditure on health per capita. Total expenditure includes both public and private expenditures. See also: Health spending as percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by country.
According to the 2013 interview of the representatives of the Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia to Radio Free Europe, because of the Russian Mental Health Law, sending people away for a month in a mental hospital is easy for prosecutors—with the help of pliable judges—and becomes an increasingly common tactic in the country's ...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an address on Friday that Russia is virtually “dismantling the entire health care system” in the occupied parts of the country. Zelensky told the ...
Alcohol has been a major health concern in Russia, especially for men of working age. Excessive alcohol use has caused many early deaths. [1] Alcoholism in Russia, according to some authors, has reached the level of a national disaster [2] [3] and a humanitarian catastrophe. [4]
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russian scientists were close to creating vaccines for cancer that could soon be available to patients.