Soviet health: More research

Soviet Program for Medical Research **†

At the 20th Congress of the Communist party of the Soviet Union, held in Moscow in February, 1956, the sixth five-year plan was presented and accepted. Such plans extend into all walks of life in the U.S.S.R. but particularly in fields of applied science, not the least of which has been the program for work in the medical sciences. This pattern is characteristic of the Soviet Union, and one can...

Regeneration research in the Soviet Union.

Over the past 20 years Soviet research in regeneration has undergone a shift in emphasis from work on amphibians to mammals. In that period several distinct schools of thought have arisen, and often there has been considerable controversy as to the nature of certain regenerative processes. At present most mammalian tissues and organs are being studied with respect to natural regenerative capaci...

Perestroika in the Soviet Union's health system.

Recent experiments in the Soviet Union mirror the debates in the United Kingdom about improving incentives in health care. The most interesting innovation to emerge under perestroika is a pilot project in Leningrad and at two other sites which could radically change the financing of hospitals. Hitherto, the budget has gone from the ministry to the hospitals and to the polyclinics by bureaucrati...

Soviet-American cooperation in environmental health science.

Health world views of post-Soviet citizens.

The collapse of the Soviet Union has had an adverse impact on the lives of the peoples of Russia and Ukraine. This paper reports on qualitative case studies including interviews, focus groups and children's essays from Russia and Ukraine, on the topics of everyday understanding of health and the factors influencing it. The majority report poor health and difficult material circumstances. Their ...