The paper analyzes the life expectances in the SFD regions by applying the ideas of exogenous and endogenous determination of mortality. The data of recent years concerning death rates arranged by their associated major sets of causes of death showed a positive dynamics in most cases. An average...

Reproductive health is considered as an important part of the population health and a quantitative characteristic of reproduction of the population. To assess a current state of the reproductive health in the present social and sanitary environment of the Siberian Federal District, we use such...

The paper analyzes the dynamics of the ethnic and demographic situation observed in the Siberian Federal District in connection with migration processes. We consider ethnic aspects of the human development in the SFD cities. We can conclude that a reduction of the population with a western trend...

The paper presents some findings from a study on Optimization of Regional Social Policy in the Siberian Federal District (within the framework of the Russian-Canadian project) on the key issues of social development in Siberia and of regional social policy in the Siberian Federal District in the...

The paper presents the analysis of the experts’ interview carried out in Novosibirsk City and the regions of the Novosibirsk Oblast, September-October 2006. The experts were the directors who headed the Novosibirsk Oblast Departments or regional Novosibirsk Oblast departments, the Federal...

The paper presents a medium-run conceptual project of the development of Siberia. The main strategy in the social policy of century XXI must be development of human potential, which constitutes a critical resource for economic growth and social progress. The paper analyses basic challenges,...

The paper presents a sociological study of how elderly people, living in two large industrial districts of Novosibirsk, have adapted to the social changes happened at the macro- and micro levels; and to what degree their life views correspond to the existed social standards. The authors describe...

Expected life longevity of urban and rural population of Siberia in 1989-1999 are analysed. It is found that within the dynamic series two opposite trajectories of expected life longevity are traced, that is, downward (reduction) in 1989-1994 and upward (growth) in 1995-1999. An important place...

The paper shows how the analysis of demographic safety could help in identifying the conditions necessary to neutralize present demographic threats and to prevent new ones. We presented here a classification of demographic threats for Russia, most crucial impacts of such threats, indicators and...