Russian Medicine

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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

  • Medcial Academies were "poor and feeble in quality"

  • Pirogov became a professor of surgery at the Military Medical Academy, lifted it to a very high level of efficency

  • 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

  • Medical spending by the government fell from 7 to 3 percent

  • Period: to

    Experienced one of the fastest growing HIV/AIDS epidemics in the world

  • 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

  • 17.8% of the population were below the poverty line

  • Russian government launched national projects to help healthcare

    $3.2 billion