The Director of the division of information, evidence, research and innovation the European regional Bureau of the who Claudia Stein said in a report on the state of healthcare in Europe about the improvement of the Russian system. In particular, the expert who commented on the landmark parameters of growth of life expectancy, reducing alcohol consumption and reducing the number of deaths in road accidents.
“We note the improvement in large number of indicators for Russia, especially those relating to trauma and external factors, which actually declined. The number of deaths in road accidents fell, and life expectancy, on the contrary, increased,” said Stein.
According to the statistics, which formed the basis of the report, life expectancy in Rasseivateli to an index of 70.9 years (data for 2013). The new figure of 7 years more than life expectancy in Russia in 1994, which, of course, gratifying. At the same time, in comparison with the average duration of life for the European region is by 6.93 years smaller in comparison with EU countries – 10 years less.
Commenting on positive changes in the Russian health care system, the specialist who noted: these changes were made possible due to the fact that “there were embodied many of the concepts, legislation, including those relating to the reduction of mortality in the accident, which demonstrate their success”.
Earlier Magicforum wrote that researchers and sociologists in Russia recorded the largest gap in life expectancy of mujcin and women. Russian women on average live longer than men by 11 years – are equally significant difference is not observed anywhere else from European countries.