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Russia's Torn Safety Nets : Health and Social Welfare During the Transition / by NA NA.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- NA, NA., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Europe--Politics and government.
- Europe.
- Political sociology.
- Welfare state.
- Social service.
- Medical sciences.
- Economics.
- European Politics.
- Political Sociology.
- Welfare.
- Social Work.
- Health Sciences.
- Political Economy and Economic Systems.
- Local Subjects:
- European Politics.
- Political Sociology.
- Welfare.
- Social Work.
- Health Sciences.
- Political Economy and Economic Systems.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (VI, 314 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2000.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.
- Summary:
- 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:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- 1. Introduction
- PART I. HEALTH ISSUES
- 2. The Health and Demographic Crisis in Post-Soviet Russia: A Two-Phase Development
- 3. Unfulfilled Hopes: The Struggle to Reform Russian Health Care and Its Financing
- 4. Negotiating the Post-Soviet Medical Marketplace: Growing Gaps in the Safety Net
- 5. The Politics of Health Care in Russia: The Feminization of Medicine and Other Obstacles to Professionalism
- 6. Drug Abuse in Post-Communist Russia
- 7. The Problem of AIDS
- 8. The Disabled in Russia in the 1990s
- PART II. SOCIAL ISSUES
- 9. The "New" Sexism: Images of Russian Women during the Transition
- 10. New World of Work: Employment, Unemployment, and Adaptation
- 11. Internal Migration: A Civil Society Challenge
- 12. Russia's Aging Population
- 13. Promises To Keep: Pension Provision in the Russian Federation
- 14. The Social Crisis of the Russian Military
- PART III. REPLACING 1HE SAFETY NET
- 15. U.S. Foreign Assistance to the Russian Federation for Medicine and Health
- Contributors
- Index.
- ISBN:
- 9781349627127
- 1349627127
- OCLC:
- 1084416008
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