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Period: Jan 1, 1533 to
Ivan IV
Four physicians, two surgeons, eight surgical dressers, eight barbersurgeons, and four apothecaries were brought from Germany. -
Jan 1, 1557
Two English physicians were brought to Moscow
Ivan IV -
First hospital
Peter the Great -
First medical
Peter the Great -
Medical faculties in five Russian institutions, namely, the Universities of Moscow, Dorpat, Kharkov, and Kazan, and the Medico-Chirurgical Academy in St. Petersburg
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Medcial Academies were "poor and feeble in quality"
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Pirogov became a professor of surgery at the Military Medical Academy, lifted it to a very high level of efficency
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Pavlov born
Famous physiologist -
Serfs releseased from bondage
Caused greater attention to the wellbeing of the individual -
Two revolutions
Serious effect of sanitation and hospitals. No funding for medical centers, and no repairs possible. Medicine went into a huge decline. -
New Economic Policy
Position of medical slightly improved, but not much -
36,000 medical students
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Medical spending by the government fell from 7 to 3 percent
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Period: to
Experienced one of the fastest growing HIV/AIDS epidemics in the world
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Healthcare fell
End of Soviet Union
Rates of tuberculosis, cancer and heart disease are the highest of any industrialised country -
Period: to
Life expectancy falls
60.4 men, 74.1 women -
Infant mortality rates rising, more than most industralized countries
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17.8% of the population were below the poverty line
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Russian government launched national projects to help healthcare
$3.2 billion