Technology Versus Responsibility: Immigrant Physicians from the Former Soviet Union Reflect on Israeli Health Care

1997 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larissa I. Remennick ◽  
Ronny A. Shtarkshall
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Former Soviet Union

scholarly journals Health Care Reform in the Former Soviet Union: Beyond the Transition

2011 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 840-864 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dina Balabanova ◽  
Bayard Roberts ◽  
Erica Richardson ◽  
Christian Haerpfer ◽  
Martin McKee
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Health Care Reform ◽  
Former Soviet Union

From state care to self-care: cancer screening behaviours among Russian-speaking Australian women

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Team ◽  
Lenore H. Manderson ◽  
Milica Markovic
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Cancer Screening ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Preventive Health Care ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Health Care Policies

In this article, we report on a small qualitative scale study with immigrant Russian-speaking Australian women, carers of dependent family members. Drawing on in-depth interviews, we explore women’s health-related behaviours, in particular their participation in breast and cervical cancer screening. Differences in preventive health care policies in country of origin and Australia explain their poor participation in cancer screening. Our participants had grown up in the former Soviet Union, where health checks were compulsory but where advice about frequency and timing was the responsibility of doctors. Following migration, women continued to believe that the responsibility for checks was their doctor’s, and they maintained that, compared with their experience of preventive medicine in the former Soviet Union, Australian practice was poor. Women argued that if reproductive health screening were important in cancer prevention, then health care providers would take a lead role to ensure that all women participated. Data suggest how women’s participation in screening may be improved.

Health and health care in the former Soviet Union

The Lancet ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 341 (8840) ◽  
pp. 310-311
Author(s):  
M.S.B. Vaile
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Former Soviet Union

scholarly journals The SDGs and health systems: the last step on the long and unfinished journey to universal health care?

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. i28-i31
Author(s):  
Selina Rajan ◽  
Walter Ricciardi ◽  
Martin McKee
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Health Coverage ◽  
Services Research ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
South East Europe ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Universal Health

Abstract In 2015, the world’s governments committed, in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to achieve universal health coverage by 2030, something they will be held accountable for. We examine progress in the WHO European Region using data from several sources. We assess effective coverage using data from the Global Burden of Disease Programme, including access to 9 key interventions for maternal and child health and communicable and non-communicable diseases and mortality from 32 conditions amenable to health care. Progress is mixed; while Finland and Iceland have already achieved the 2030 target already, other countries, including in the Caucasus and Central Asia have not yet, and are unlikely to by 2030. We then examine financial protection, where progress lags in Central and South East Europe and the former Soviet Union, where high out-of-pocket healthcare payments and catastrophic spending are still common. We stress the need to consider inequalities within countries, with the most vulnerable groups, such as Roma or newly arrived migrants (from the Middle East and Africa) often underserved, while their needs are frequently undocumented. To make progress on the SDGs, governments must invest more heavily in health services research and support the infrastructure and capacity required to enable it.

Informal Payments: A Side Effect of Transition or a Mechanism for Sustaining the Illusion of ‘Free’ Health Care? The Experience of Four Regions in the Russian Federation

2009 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 649-670 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARIANNA FOTAKI
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Side Effect ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Policy Option ◽  
Informal Payments ◽  
Free Health Care ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Government ◽  
Moderate Cost

AbstractInformal payments for health services are widespread in many transition economies in post-communist Europe and the former Soviet Union. Their existence complements and in some cases significantly contributes to the financing of their health systems. It has been suggested that they are the legacy of planned socialist economies and a temporary side effect of the transition from a planned to a market economy. This article discusses the findings of the study investigating the extent and nature of the informal payments and evaluates the policy options on offer. It asserts that despite the level of declared support for moderate cost-sharing by different population groups, it is unlikely that any legalised form of co-payment will affect or replace informal payments, as the government uses them to sustain the illusion of ‘free’ health care. The study argues that the utilitarian gain maximisation principle, calling for the greatest collective welfare in communitarian egalitarianism, and the satisfaction of individual preferences in libertarian economics enable the acceptance of informal payments as a viable policy option.

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