The opportunity for patient choice in the health care system in CIS countries was created by the partial destruction of the referral system and the development of paid medical services. The data of two population surveys conducted in Russia in 2009 and 2011 show that patient choice of medical...

Healthcare in Russia has gone through many transformative stages, from a Soviet-era model of public provision to an emphasis on privatization under economic liberalization during the 1990s. Both have legacies that survive to the present, and now a mix of both public and private healthcare...

"In the post-Cold War, post financial crisis era, health care is an issue of critical political, personal and economic concern. In the US, plans to address a troubled health care model were met by vocal opposition. In the UK and post-communist Europe, attempts to introduce aspects of that model...

Social policy and the health crisis in the new Russia / Nadia Davidova ... [et al.] -- Measuring the population's health / Nataliya Tikhonova -- Understanding health / Svetlana Goryunova and Nataliya Tikhonova -- Inequalities and health / Nataliya Tikhonova -- Poverty in post-reform Russia /...