Russia's Torn Safety Nets
Subtitle: Health and Social Welfare During the Transition
Contributors: Mark G. Field (Editor); Judyth L. Twigg (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: June 3, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780312229160
Subjects: Social Policy; Social Situations And Conditions; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Economic Conditions; Post-Communism; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Social Science / Social Work; Social Work; 1991-; Medical care; Quality of life; Russia (Federation); Social conditions
First sentence: AMONG THE MANY SCOURGES THAT ARE HAUNTING post-Soviet Russia is a health and demographic crisis of major proportions, with ominous implications reaching into the third millennium.
Description: (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.