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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]
Russia's constitution guarantees free, universal health care for all Russian citizens, through a compulsory state health insurance program. [68] The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation oversees the Russian public healthcare system, and the sector employs more than two million people. Federal regions also have their own departments of ...
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.
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 ...
Known for frequently posting dubious claims about Putin’s ill health, it first emerged in 2020 claiming to be run by former members of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service and other state ...
In May 2017, the Institute announced that it would deliver 1,000 doses of its vaccine candidate, GamEvac-Combi, [8] to Guinea for Ebola testing. According to a Xinhua report, it was considered to be an approved Ebola vaccine, [9] although GamEvac-Combi was licensed only in Russia, and did not have a multinational license approved by the World Health Organization, as of November 2019.