Timeline of healthcare in Russia

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This is a timeline of healthcare in Russia. Major events such as crises, policies and organizations are described.

Big picture

Year/period Key developments
Tsarist Russia During the times of Slavery in Russia, the health conditions of the population range starting from a calamitous level. Generally, lack of preventive measures against diseases results in a very high mortality rate among both adults and children. Severe sanitary neglect, filth and unhygienic living conditions prevail. Six epidemis of Asiatic cholera strike Russia and claim over 2 million human lifes in the country.[1]
1922–1991 Soviet Russia builds a totally socialist health care model (Semashko system) with a centralized, integrated, hierarchically organized with the government providing state-funded health care to all citizens. All health personnel are state employees. Control of communicable diseases have priority over non-communicable ones. On the whole, the system tends to primary care, and places much emphasis on specialist and hospital care. Universal healthcare is established in 1930s and 1940s as part of rapid modernization and industrialization.[2]
1991–2000 Period following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Russia’s statist political economy implodes, and its healthcare system is thrown into crisis. Public expenditures on health decline dramatically, following a decade-long decline in the economy. Health indicators plummet. Male life expectancy decline to below 60 years. Infectious diseases re-emerge and spread, and even childhood immunization programs collapse temporarily in parts of the country.[2]
2000–2010 The Russian healthcare system recovers substantially in terms of financing, performance, organizational coherence and health outcomes. Rapid growth the economy from 2000 to 2007 allows growth in spending for public healthcare[2][3] and by 2006 the figure exceeds the pre-1991 level in real terms.[3] Also there's an increase in life expectancy from 1991-93 levels, and a decrease in infant mortality from 18.1 in 1995 to 8.4 in 2008.[4] By 2010, the worst effects on health indicators reverse.[2] However, health in Russia remains well below the levels of developed countries.
2010–present Today, Russia's healthare system has recovered substantially from the crisis conditions of the 1990s. However, it is still characterized by its low efficiency, with outcomes similar to those of countries far less developed. As of 2016, life expectancy in Russia is lower that those of countries like Belize, Nepal and Bangla Desh.[2][5]


Timeline

Year/period Type of event Event Location
1601–1603 Crisis The Russian famine of 1601–03 is considered the Russia's worst famine in terms of proportional effect on the population, with deceases estimated at two million people. The famine is part of worldwide record cold winters and crop disruption, which in 2008 geologists linked to the 1600 volcanic eruption of Huaynaputina in Peru.[6]
1748 Organization City hospital No. 40 is founded.[7] Saint Petersburg
1758 Organization I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University is established.[8] Moscow
1770–1772 Crisis 1770–1772 Russian plague. It is the last massive outbreak of plague in central Russia, claiming between 52 and 100 thousand lives in Moscow alone (1/6 to 1/3 of its population). Originated in Moldova.[9] Central Russia, Moldova, Ukraine
1814 Organization Kazan State Medical University is founded.[10] Kazan
1891–1892 Crisis Russian famine of 1891–2. Originated along the Volga River, it spreads as far as the Urals and Black Sea. Between fourteen to twenty million people are estimated to be affected, of which 375,000 to 400,000 died, mostly of disease.[11] Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Ryazan Oblast, Ryazan Oblast, Republic of Tatarstan, Ulyanovsk Oblast, Saratov Oblast, Penza Oblast, Samara Oblast and Tambov Oblast.
1897 Organization First Pavlov State Medical University of St. Petersburg is established.[12] Saint Petersburg
1906 Organization The Russian National Research Medical University is established.[13] Moscow
1910 Organization Lesnoye Sanatorium is founded. Its main focus is tuberculosis treatment.[14] Tolyatti
1915 Organization The Anglo-Russian Hospital is founded. It is set up during the First World War. Closed in 1918.[15] Petrograd
1920 Organization Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy is founded.[16] Nizhny Novgorod
1920 Organization The Medical Faculty of the Siberian Institute of Veterinary Medicine and Zoology is founded. Today Omsk Medical Academy.[17] Omsk
1921–1922 Crisis 1921–22 famine in Tatarstan. It is calculated that more than 2,000,000 peasants starved, particularly in Arsk, Sviyazhsk, Mamadysh, Menzelinsk, Spassk, Tetyushi and Chelny cantons.Template:Fix/category[citation needed] Tatarstan
1921 Organization The Serbsky State Scientific Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry is founded. The institution has garnered negative publicity because many Soviet dissidents were examined there and then sent to psychiatric hospitals.Template:Fix/category[citation needed] Moscow
1922 Organization Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry is founded.[18] Moscow
1925 Organization Saint Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University is established.[19] Saint Petersburg
1935 Organization Kursk State Medical University is established.[20] Kursk
1935 Organization Novosibirsk State Medical Academy is founded as Novosibirsk State Medical University.[21] Novosibirsk
1935 Organization Volgograd State Medical University is founded.[22] Volgograd
1936 Organization Leningrad Dental Institute is founded. Later transferred to Tver and renamed Tver State Medical Academy.[23] Saint Petersburg
1938 Publication Military Medical Business (Военно Санитарное Дело) is launched as a professional medical journal of the Worker's and Peasant's Red Army.[24]
1944 Organization The USSR Academy of Medical Sciences is founded.[25]
1944 Organization Yaroslavl State Medical Academy is founded.[26] Yaroslavl
1947 Organization The Federal Biomedical Agency is formed. It is the national public health institute of the Russian Federation.[27] Moscow
1951 Organization The St Petersburg Psychiatric Hospital of Specialized Type with Intense Observation is founded.[28] St Petersburg
1955 Publication Zdoroviye (Template:Lang-ru; literally "Health") is founded as a health magazine.[29]
1955 Policy Abortion is legalized for medical reasons (and for overall reasons in 1968).[30]
1956 Organization Bakulev Scientific Center of Cardiovascular Surgery is founded. It is one of the leading cardiovascular surgery-related facilities of the Russian Federation.[31] Moscow
1956 Organization Vladivostok State Medical University is established.[32] Vladivostok
1957 Organization The Central Clinical Hospital of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation is founded.[33] Moscow
1971 Organization The Russian Ilizarov Scientific Center for Restorative Traumatology and Orthopaedics is founded. The center is the largest in the world that specializes in the treatment of complex orthopaedic problems.[34] Kurgan
1977 People's Doctor of the USSR (Template:Lang-ru) is established as an honorary title conferred by the Supreme Soviet's presidency on behalf of the Ministry of Health. Bestowed to individual medical doctors and nurses but also to health care structures as general hospitals, sanatoriums, maternity wards or preventive medicine centers.Template:Fix/category[citation needed]
1979 Crisis Sverdlovsk anthrax leak. Spores of anthrax are accidentally released from a military facility. This accident is sometimes called "biological Chernobyl". Approximately 100 deaths are estimated.[35] Yekaterinburg
1987 Policy After the first case of AIDS is confirmed in Russia, the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union passes the strictest anti-AIDS law in the world, making the knowing transmittal of the infection a criminal offense punishable by up to eight years in jail.[30]
1988 Organization Fyodorov Eye Microsurgery Complex is founded by Russian eye surgeon Svyatoslav Fyodorov.[36] Moscow
1988 Organization The Fyodorov Eye Microsurgery Complex is founded as a clinical and research ophthalmological center.[37] Moscow. Branches in Cheboksary, Irkutsk, Kaluga, Khabarovsk, Krasnodar, Novosibirsk, Orenburg, Saint Petersburg, Tambov, Volgograd, and Yekaterinburg.
1989 Organization The Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia is founded. It first psychiatric association in the USSR not controlled by the State.[38] Moscow
1992 Organization The USSR Academy of Medical Sciences is succeeded by the newly founded Russian Academy of Medical Sciences.[39]
1992 Organization The MSU Faculty of Fundamental Medicine is founded.[40] Moscow
1993 Policy Article 41 of the 1993 constitution confirms a citizen's right to healthcare and medical assistance free of charge.[41]
1993 Policy The 89 Russian regions share responsibility for health policy with the federal government. Nine supra-regional economic groupings are formed with no political or administrative power.[42]
1995 Policy New law stipulates that all visitors remaining more than three months must provide documentation proving that they are not infected with HIV.[30]
1996 Policy Government health facilities are allowed to offer private services.[43]
2001 Organization Humanitarian Action is founded as a non-governmental charitable organization. It carries out programs and outreach for HIV/AIDS prevention, and aiding street children, intravenous drug users, and sex workers.[44] Saint Petersburg
2003 Organization The Northern Dimension Partnership in Public Health and Social Well-being (NDPHS) is formed as a transnational cooperative effort of nine governments, the European Commission and eight international organisations to tackle challenges regarding health and social well-being issues in the Northern Dimension area.[45] Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden
2003 Organization Saint Petersburg Children’s Hospice is founded as a non-profit institution of pediatric palliative care for minors under 18 years.[46] Saint Petersburg
2005 Campaign Following a relatively high rate of infection, the Russian government starts a massive increases in expenditure against HIV/AIDS, and a network of regional AIDS centers is established.[2]
2006 The Minister of Health Mikhail Zurabov and Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee for Health Protection Nikolai Gerasimenko propose reinstating the Soviet-era tax on childlessness, which ended in 1992.[47]
2006 Campaign The Russian government launches a national projects plan that approved an additional $3.2 billion in spending on health care, covering the salaries of doctors and nurses, the purchase of medical equipment, and the construction of eight high-tech medical centers in Russia’s outlying regions.[36]
2007 Report Russia experiences the highest birth rate since the collapse of the USSR.[48]
2010 Policy The Russian Government adopts a National Anti-Tobacco Policy Concept, based on ratification of the WHO 2008 Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.[2]
2011 Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announces a large-scale health-care reform and pledges to allocate more than 300 billion rubles ($10 billion) in the next few years to improve health care in the country.[49]
2011 Policy Private providers start to provide services to the state-insured.[43]
2011 Organization The Federal Center of Neurosurgery is founded.[50] Tyumen
2012 Organization The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation succeeds the former Ministry of Health and Social Development.[51] Moscow
2012 Policy Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signs the May Decrees which includes a plan to double the wages of healthcare staff by 2018 and gradual privatization of state health services.[43]
2013 Development United Medical Information and Analytical System of Moscow (EMIAS) is released as a complex information system that automatises the booking of hospital visits and work of medical professionals.[52] Moscow
2014 Wage rises in Moscow leads to the closure of 15 hospitals and 7000 redundancies.[43] Moscow
2016 Report Life expectancy in Russia is estimated at 67.42 years, being ranked 171th out of 228 political subdivisions.[5]

Numerical and visual data

Google Scholar

The following table summarizes per-year mentions on Google Scholar as of June 5, 2021.

Year healthcare in Russia universal healthcare in Russia private healthcare in Russia medical research in Russia
1990 57 15 39 3,910
1995 268 90 164 6,740
2000 1,490 407 624 15,200
2002 2,120 733 1,180 14,300
2004 2,560 896 1,580 18,000
2006 3,600 1,220 2,210 20,900
2008 5,780 1,800 3,080 28,800
2010 7,590 2,910 4,030 35,700
2012 10,900 3,470 6,160 45,200
2014 14,900 4,140 7,480 54,000
2016 18,600 4,970 8,800 56,900
2017 19,800 5,200 8,740 54,400
2018 22,100 5,890 8,800 51,800
2019 21,600 6,400 9,420 48,000
2020 26,200 7,260 10,800 37,000
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Google Trends

The image below shows Google Trends data for Healthcare in Russia (Search term) from January 2004 to February 2021, when the screenshot was taken. Interest is also ranked by country and displayed on world map.[53]

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Google Ngram Viewer

The chart below shows Google Ngram Viewer data for Healthcare in Russia, from 1950 to 2019.[54]

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Wikipedia Views

The chart below shows pageviews of the English Wikipedia article Healthcare in Russia, on desktop, mobile-web, desktop-spider, mobile-web-spider and mobile app, from July 2015 to January 2021.[55]

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See also

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