Monitoring the economic transition in the Russian Federation and its implications for the demographic crisis — the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey

A comparison of international references for the assessment of child and adolescent overweight and obesity in different populations

“…In addition, it is also possible that the remarked agedifference in overweight among children and adolescents across countries we observed may be related to some underlying socioeconomic and behavioral factors that differ among the three countries (ESCAP, 1998;CNBS, 1999;Jing, 2000;World Bank, 1999;Zohoori et al, 1998). For example, in China and Russia, children may have a higher energy diet and be less active than adolescents; as a result, they are at a higher risk for overweight.…”

“…Finally, changes in nutritional status might be more sensitive to food shortage during adolescence than during childhood. In the early 1990s, Russia experienced remarked socioeconomic difficulties (World Bank, 1999;Zohoori et al, 1998). Further research is needed to test the above hypotheses.…”

“…Weight and height were measured following a protocol similar to the one used in the US NHANES surveys. Details about the RLMS have been described elsewhere (Zohoori et al, 1998). The 1992 data were used in our study.…”

Drug policy and the public good?

“…The above manysided survey is based on interviews with members of more than 4000 households in many regions of the country (Zohoori et al . 1996(Zohoori et al . , 2002).…”

“…The reason for this phenomenon, which affects most countries, must be the current tendency to consider English as an international language of medicine. Another explanation for the low rate of non-English citations is that non-American or British authors who publish in English rarely cite publications from their own countries (Egghe, Rousseau & Yitzhaki 1999). Currently, we are carrying out a citation analysis of drug-abuse publications from other language areas, and calculating potential impact factors that include journals not in the Journal Citation Report .…”