Health and Health Care in the New Russia

This volume explores the nature of health and health-care experiences in Russia by comparing societies and communities with different socio-cultural conditions. The findings are set within the context of experience from Finland and the UK, allowing the authors to explore the challenge of the Russian health-care crisis to Western European models of health status and health care.

Nick Manning is Professor of Social Policy and Sociology at the University of Nottingham, UK. Nataliya Tikhonova is Professor at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia. They are the editors of two companion volumes: Poverty and Social Exclusion in the New Russia (2004) and (with Ovsey Shkaratan) Work and Welfare in the New Russia (2000).

List of Figures, List of Tables, Notes on Contributors, Preface, 1 Social Policy and the Health Crisis in the New Russia, Part I Health Beliefs in the New Russia, Part II Health and Social Structure, Part III Health and Social Action, Appendix: Project Methodology, Bibliography