Title: Russia's torn safety nets : health and social welfare during the transition /
Authors: Field, Mark G.; Twigg, Judyth L.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Social Welfare; Social Conditions.; Health Status Indicators; Quality of Life; Medical care Russia (Federation); Quality of life Russia (Federation); Russia; Russia (Federation) Social conditions
Abstract: (Publisher-supplied data) Russia's attempt to replace the failed Soviet system and its command economy with a capitalist, democratic society has produced a health and social welfare crisis, at considerable human cost. Russia's Torn Safety Nets presents a series of essays by distinguished Russian and American scholars which describe and analyze the consequences of the collapsed socialist system, focusing on issues of health and demography, HIV/AIDS, drug addiction and abuse, the disabled, aging and pensions, education, women and sexism, and social issues in the military. The essays conclude with a section on the private and public efforts to ease the impact of the ongoing transition on the Russia people.
Contents: The health and demographic crisis in post-Soviet Russia : a two-phase development / Mark G. Field -- Unfulfilled hopes : the struggle to reform Russian health care and its financing / Judyth L. Twigg -- Negotiating the post-Soviet medical marketplace : growing gaps in the safety net / Julie V. Brown and Nina L. Rusinova -- The politics of health care in Russia : the feminization of medicine and other obstacles to professionalism / Kate Schechter -- Drug abuse in post-Communist Russia / John M. Kramer -- The problem of AIDS / David E. Powell -- The disabled in Russia in the 1990s / Ethel Dunn -- The "new" sexism : images of Russian women during the transition / Valerie Sperling -- New world of work : employment, unemployment, and adaptation / Walter D. Connor -- Internal migration : a civil society challenge / Justin Burke -- Russia's aging population / Victoria A. Velkoff and Kevin Kinsella -- Promises to keep : pension provision in the Russian Federation / Cynthia Buckley and Dennis Donahue -- The social crisis of the Russian military / Deborah Yarsike Ball -- U.S. foreign assistance to the Russian Federation for medicine and health / Edward J. Burger, Jr.