Russia's Torn Safety Nets Health and Social Welfare During the Transition

by Field, Mark G.; Twigg, Judyth L.

• ISBN13: 9780312229160
• ISBN10: 031222916X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-06-03
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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.

Author Biography

Mark G. Field is an Associate at the Davis Center for Russian Studies and Adjunct Professor at Harvard University’s School of Public Health. Judyth L. Twigg is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	v
Introduction	1	(10)
Mark G. Field
Judyth L. Twigg
Part I. Health Issues
The Health and Demographic Crisis in Post-Soviet Russia: A Two-Phase Development	11	(32)
Mark G. Field
Unfulfilled Hopes: The Struggle to Reform Russian Health Care and Its Financing	43	(22)
Judyth L. Twigg
Negotiating the Post-Soviet Medical Marketplace: Growing Gaps in the Safety Net	65	(18)
Julie V. Brown
Nina L. Rusinova
The Politics of Health Care in Russia: The Feminization of Medicine and Other Obstacles to Professionalism	83	(18)
Kate Schecter
Drug Abuse in Post-Communist Russia	101	(22)
John M. Kramer
The Problem of AIDS	123	(30)
David E. Powell
The Disabled in Russia in the 1990s	153	(20)
Ethel Dunn
Part II. Social Issues
The ``New'' Sexism: Images of Russian Women during the Transition	173	(18)
Valerie Sperling
New World of Work: Employment, Unemployment, and Adaptation	191	(22)
Walter D. Connor
Internal Migration: A Civil Society Challenge	213	(18)
Justin Burke
Russia's Aging Population	231	(20)
Victoria A. Velkoff
Kevin Kinsella
Promises To Keep: Pension Provision in the Russian Federation	251	(20)
Cynthia Buckley
Dennis Donabue
The Social Crisis of the Russian Military	271	(18)
Deborah Yarsike Ball
Part III. Replacing the Safety Net?
U.S. Foreign Assistance to the Russian Federation for Medicine and Health	289	(16)
Edward J. Burger, Jr.
Contributors	305	(4)
Index	309