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Well, Russian males must be doing a lot of dangerous stuff, considering that their average lifespan is 14 years shorter than russian females.
You never lose your chance, Winner, yes?
Well, Russian males must be doing a lot of dangerous stuff, considering that their average lifespan is 14 years shorter than russian females.
Come on, he is actually feeling sympathy for the 18,000 people who die in Russia because of fires every year. He's not trying to ridicule it (like some other posters in this thread are).You never lose your chance, Winner, yes?
If we're to believe the stereotypes, it's too much Vodka...Male life expectancy in Russia is 59 years - that's roughly the same as in Haiti or Ghana. It's actually a bit better in Eritrea, Cambodia and Madagascar.
Seriously, what the hell?!![]()
Male life expectancy in Russia is 59 years - that's roughly the same as in Haiti or Ghana. It's actually a bit better in Eritrea, Cambodia and Madagascar.
Seriously, what the hell?!![]()
If we're to believe the stereotypes, it's too much Vodka...
Both Putin and Medvedev have at least mentioned the drinking problem, so hopefully they are trying to do something about it.
I also expect that as the Russian economy continues to improve, many of the social problems will become smaller or at least more manageable.
Male life expectancy in Russia, the Western CIS, and Baltic States, 1964-2005 (in years)
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Male life expectancy in the CIS (1985-2005, in years)
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Changes in life expectancy during 1990-2005 (in years)
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Can the low male life expectancy in Russia be attributed to drinking issues though? I mean there isn't that much of a gap here, and as a nation we're addicted to alcohol. Is it only the men who drink in Russia?
Can the low male life expectancy in Russia be attributed to drinking issues though? I mean there isn't that much of a gap here, and as a nation we're addicted to alcohol. Is it only the men who drink in Russia?
Can the low male life expectancy in Russia be attributed to drinking issues though? I mean there isn't that much of a gap here, and as a nation we're addicted to alcohol. Is it only the men who drink in Russia?
I'm sketchy on the details but its a large part of it. Not just cirrossis, heart disease, but a lot of them die violently from being so drunk, and apparently drunks freezing to death is fairly common there too. And, dont forget, we're addicted to beer, them to vodka - a very different ball game.
Behind the Bluster, Russia Is Collapsing
By Murray Feshbach
Sunday, October 5, 2008
(...)
Something even larger is blocking Russia's march. Recent decades, most notably since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, have seen an appalling deterioration in the health of the Russian population, anchoring Russia not in the forefront of developed countries but among the most backward of nations.
This is a tragedy of huge proportions -- but not a particularly surprising one, at least to me. I followed population, health and environmental issues in the Soviet Union for decades, and more recently, I have reported on diseases such as the HIV/AIDS epidemic ravaging the Russian population. I've visited Russia more than 50 times over the years, so I can say from firsthand experience that this national calamity isn't happening suddenly. It's happening inexorably.
According to U.N. figures, the average life expectancy for a Russian man is 59 years -- putting the country at about 166th place in the world longevity sweepstakes, one notch above Gambia. For women, the picture is somewhat rosier: They can expect to live, on average, 73 years, barely beating out the Moldovans. But there are still some 126 countries where they could expect to live longer. And the gap between expected longevity for men and for women -- 14 years -- is the largest in the developed world.
So what's killing the Russians? All the usual suspects -- HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, alcoholism, cancer, cardiovascular and circulatory diseases, suicides, smoking, traffic accidents -- but they occur in alarmingly large numbers, and Moscow has neither the resources nor the will to stem the tide. Consider this:
Three times as many Russians die from heart-related illnesses as do Americans or Europeans, per each 100,000 people.
Tuberculosis deaths in Russia are about triple the World Health Organization's definition of an epidemic, which is based on a new-case rate of 50 cases per 100,000 people.
Average alcohol consumption per capita is double the rate the WHO considers dangerous to one's health.
About 1 million people in Russia have been diagnosed with HIV or AIDS, according to WHO estimates.
Using mid-year figures, it's estimated that 25 percent more new HIV/AIDS cases will be recorded this year than were logged in 2007.
And none of this is likely to get better any time soon. Peter Piot, the head of UNAIDS, the U.N. agency created in response to the epidemic, told a press conference this summer that he is "very pessimistic about what is going on in Russia and Eastern Europe . . . where there is the least progress." This should be all the more worrisome because young people are most at risk in Russia. In the United States and Western Europe, 70 percent of those with HIV/AIDS are men over age 30; in Russia, 80 percent of this group are aged 15 to 29. And although injected-drug users represent about 65 percent of Russia's cases, the country has officially rejected methadone as a treatment, even though it would likely reduce the potential for HIV infections that lead to AIDS.
And then there's tuberculosis -- remember tuberculosis? In the United States, with a population of 303 million, 650 people died of the disease in 2007. In Russia, which has a total of 142 million people, an astonishing 24,000 of them died of tuberculosis in 2007. Can it possibly be coincidental that, according to Gennady Onishchenko, the country's chief public health physician, only 9 percent of Russian TB hospitals meet current hygienic standards, 21 percent lack either hot or cold running water, 11 percent lack a sewer system, and 20 percent have a shortage of TB drugs? Hardly.
On the other end of the lifeline, the news isn't much better. Russia's birth rate has been declining for more than a decade, and even a recent increase in births will be limited by the fact that the number of women age 20 to 29 (those responsible for two-thirds of all babies) will drop markedly in the next four or five years to mirror the 50 percent drop in the birth rate in the late 1980s and the 1990s. And, sadly, the health of Russia's newborns is quite poor, with about 70 percent of them experiencing complications at birth.
Last summer, Piot of UNAIDS said that bringing Russia's HIV/AIDS epidemic under control was "a matter of political leadership and of changing the policy." He might just as well have been talking about the much larger public health crisis that threatens this vast country. But the policies seem unlikely to change as the bear lumbers along, driven by disastrously misplaced priorities and the blindingly unrealistic expectations of a resentment-driven political leadership. Moscow remains bent on ignoring the devastating truth: The nation is not just sick but dying.
murray.feshbach@wilsoncenter.org
Murray Feshbach is a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a research professor emeritus at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.
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[b]Rank Country Report[sup]1[/sup] Database[sup]2[/sup][/b]
1 Uganda 19.47
2 Luxembourg 17.54 15.56
3 Czech Republic 16.21 12.99
4 Ireland 14.45 13.69
5 Moldova 13.88 13.18
6 Hungary 11.92 13.60
7 France 13.54 11.43
8 Réunion 13.39
9 Bermuda 12.92
10 Germany 12.89 11.99
11 Croatia 12.66 12.25
12 Austria 12.58 11.08
13 Portugal 12.49 11.54
14 Slovakia 12.41 10.35
15 Lithuania 12.32 9.89
16 Spain 12.25 11.68
17 Denmark 11.93 11.71
18 United Kingdom 10.39 11.75
19 Switzerland 11.53 10.83
20 Cyprus 6.67 11.52
21 Saint Lucia 10.45 11.48
22 Belgium 10.06 10.63
23 [b]Russia[/b] 10.58 10.32
[sup]1[/sup] WHO Global Status Report on Alcohol 2004
[sup]2[/sup] WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS)
But are the Irish addicted to alcohol so much that they turn to cologne?
"Almost half of working-age men in Russia who die are killed by alcohol abuse"
O RLY?
Such articles are **** insulting! And have nothing to do with reality.
Almost half of working-age men in Russia who die are killed by alcohol abuse, reducing Russia's male life expectancy significantly.[24][25][26]
Again: O RLY???Almost half of working-age men in Russia who die are killed by alcohol abuse, reducing Russia's male life expectancy significantly.[24][25][26]