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Geographical Locations - Ukraine
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Country Information
- (Statistical) Number of Inhabitants per Doctor: 1,064
- CIA World Factbook : Ukraine
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Non-Government
- Ukranian Medical Association in Lviv
- Youth Information Educational Centre - "assistance to the process of social reforms in Ukraine by improving ecological, sanitary, sports, cultural, educational, scientific, and charitable spheres of society"
Academic Institutions
National Policy and Related Documents
Reports, Guidelines, and Projects
- Chernobyl Catastrophe Consequences on Human Health
This Greenpeace Report "...challenges the UN International Atomic Energy Agency Chernobyl Forum report, which predicted 4,000 additional deaths attributable to the accident as a gross simplification of the real breadth of human suffering. The new data, based on Belarus national cancer statistics, predicts approximately 270,000 cancers and 93,000 fatal cancer cases caused by Chernobyl. The report also concludes that on the basis of demographic data, during the last 15 years, 60,000 people have additionally died in Russia because of the Chernobyl accident, and estimates of the total death toll for the Ukraine and Belarus could reach another 140,000. "
- Health Effects of the Chernobyl Accident and Special Health Care Programmes
Some 5,000 people who were children and adolescents at the time of the world’s worst-ever civil nuclear accident at Chernobyl, Ukraine, have so far been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, and there may be up to 9,000 excess cancer deaths, according to this United Nations study examining the health impact of the disaster.
- Rhetoric and Risk: Human Rights Abuses Impeding Ukraine's Fight Against HIV/AIDs
This Human Rights Watch report, documents how draconian drug laws and routine police abuse of injection drug users – the population hardest hit by HIV/AIDS in Ukraine – keep them from receiving lifesaving HIV information and services that the government has pledged to provide.
- Ukraine: Improving Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations and Public Health and Education Expenditure Policy: Selected Issues
“For the large amount of resources the budget spends on services such as health and education, Ukrainians do not obtain good value. The health sector outcomes2 are quite poor as shown by some indicators: while maternal and child mortality rates have improved in recent years, life expectancy remains below the pre-transition levels at 67.1 years, and male mortality (currently 61.7 years) has been worsening. At the same time, the incidence of illnesses such as tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS has been growing. On balance, most of the health indicators for Ukraine under-perform those for the new EU member countries. Similar data on education performance are not available, since it was only in 2007 that Ukraine started to take part in international comparable standardized tests of student performance. Nevertheless, there is indirect evidence of increasing dispersion in the quality of learning combined with shortages of skilled labor as reported by businesses. Moreover, Ukraine’s score is among the lowest of all transition economies when it comes to rating the quality of health and education services, as shown in the 2007 EBRD-World Bank Life in Transition Survey. In part, this is due to the acute inefficiency of service provision in these sectors, which generates under-spending on quality-enhancing expenditures and investments… Ukraine’s budget does not need to spend more in service provision, but needs to spend better (more efficiently). In this context, the government needs to improve resource allocation by strengthening its intergovernmental fiscal system and by creating sufficient fiscal savings within the current fiscal envelopes of the health and education sectors in order to re-allocate these savings towards quality-enhancing expenditures and investments within each sector… This [2008 World Bank] report focuses on raising selected issues in the following areas: (i) improving the intergovernmental fiscal framework; (ii) overcoming fiscal, efficiency, and equity challenges in public health care spending; (iii) overcoming fiscal, efficiency, and equity challenges in public education spending; and (iv) strengthening local capital budgeting.”
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