Differentiation of dependency ratio in Irkutsk oblast

Avoiding Middle-income Trap in Muslim Majority Countries: The Effect of Total Factor Productivity, Human Capital, and Age Dependency Ratio

    In 2010, the World Bank categorized countries in per capita gross domestic product in terms of purchasing power parity (at constant 1990 prices) in three categories: low, middle (lower and upper) and high income. If a country caught at least 28 years in lower middle income level and at least 14 years caught in upper middle-income level, then they are trapped in lower middle and upper middle...

The Old-Age Healthy Dependency Ratio in Europe

The aim of this study is to answer the question of whether improvements in the health of the elderly in European countries could compensate for population ageing on the supply side of the labour market. We propose a state-of-health-specific (additive) decomposition of the old-age dependency ratio into an old-age healthy dependency ratio and an old-age unhealthy dependency ratio in order to part...

Occupational diseases in Murmansk Oblast: 1980–2010

BACKGROUND Official statistics tend to underestimate the incidence of occupational disease (OD) nationally and regionally in Russia. OBJECTIVES The general aim was to obtain an accurate estimate of ODs in Murmansk Oblast in 1980-2010 and to determine the rate of specific types of ODs among cohorts of workers who had been exposed to the hazardous factors causing the disease. MATERIALS AND ME...

[Intensity of traffic noise in Irkutsk and its hygienic evaluation].

Causes of death during tuberculosis treatment in Tomsk Oblast, Russia.

SETTING Tuberculosis (TB) incidence and mortality in Russia have risen dramatically over the past 15 years. OBJECTIVE To identify risk factors and causes of death among TB patients in Russia. DESIGN A retrospective study conducted to determine the risk factors and causes of death in patients receiving TB therapy in Tomsk, Siberia. RESULTS Of 1916 patients who initiated treatment between 1...