Investigating the relationship between alcohol consumption and subjective poverty in Russia.

The Russian government has long struggled with the problem of excessive alcohol consumption. We examined the relationship between alcohol consumption and subjective poverty in Russia using the special survey of the Levada Analytical Center conducted in 2017. Subjective poverty represents an individual's perception of personal well-being when an individual's income is lower than the required not to feel poor.

Anti-smoking policy in Russia: Relevant factors and program planning.

In this paper, we consider anti-smoking policy in Russia and the socioeconomic factors that influence an individual's decision to smoke. Among various factors, we investigate the individual time preferences of Russians. To estimate individual time preferences, we use an experiment in which survey respondents are given hypothetical money prizes.

Lack of correlation between complications after smallpox vaccination and the ABO blood-group system.

Blood group [ABO system] distribution was analysed in 245 children with complications after smallpox vaccination. One hundred and thirty-two children had neurological and 113 and skin or mucosal complications. 41.

[Study of the multiple puncture method in smallpox vaccination of children].

In this work the multiple puncture method (in 76 cases) was compared with the scarification method--2 clinear cuts (in 70 cases). "Vaccine take" of the vaccines demonstrated a statistically significant difference: by the first method the percentage of personal "vaccine take" was 98.7, and by the second--86.

[Immunological efficacy of smallpox vaccination in children with relative contraindications to vaccination].

Children (aged from 3 to 9 years) vaccinated against smallpox by multiple puncture (3 punctures by bifurcation needle), by a single cut and with vaccine diluted with a double dose of the solvent were observed. Vaccination by the methods tested considerably diminished the vaccinal reactions and failed to influence appreciably the formation of a full-value humoral immunity; only dilution of the vaccination material reduced the dynamics of the immunogenesis at the early periods after the vaccination. In children aged 3--5 and 6--9 years general vaccinal reactions were of the same character, whereas local reactions and immunological response were more pronounced in older children.