Health Care In Russia Case Study

Health care in Russia has been on the brink of disaster for a long time now. This decline in their health care system is having a negative impact on many aspects of the country. The health of individuals is at risk and the life expectancy is becoming as low as it was in 1955 (Marquez et al., 2007). These health care practices that are used in Russia negatively impact Russian-Americans as well, there are also health problems unique to just Russian-Americans, and Russian-Americans use gestures and space to communicate with each other effectively.
Russian Health Care There have been recent changes in the Russian health care system that have had a big impact. Firstly, bioethics has been introduced to the health care system in Russia (Tichtchenko, 2003). Bioethics is addressing the many moral problems that can come up when patients are being cared for by medical professionals. Citizens of Russia were completely unaware of the rights of patients and consumers of medical services, so they were unable to fight for their rights if they felt they were being treated unfairly. “The usual way of resolving conflicts between patients and physicians was to …show more content…
High blood pressure, high cholesterol, and tobacco are some of the main risk factors. However, alcohol is a huge factor in the Russian health crisis. “Fluctuations in life expectancy since the mid-1980s have been driven by causes of death associated with hazardous drinking” (Marquez et al., 2007, p. 2007). Russia serves surrogate alcoholic beverages that in other countries usually consist of chemicals. They use high concentrated alcohol for lighter fluid, window cleaning fluid, antifreeze, and even aftershaves (Tichtchenko, 2003). The public of Russia started to buy these cleaning products instead of normal alcoholic beverages because they were untaxed and inexpensive drinks (Tichtchenko,