Smoking-associated mortality in Russian regions
Abstract
The problem of smoking “epidemic” affecting the public health is highly actual in Russia for many years already. There are many detailed studies of smoking in Russia at the national level. However, at the moment there is no regionally representative survey of the Russian population on smoking issues. Unfortunately, the data of scattered regional studies do not solve the problem. The article is aimed at identifying regional aspects and patterns of smoking in the regions of Russia. The authors suggest an indirect assessment of how smoking affects the health and mortality of the population in various regions of Russia, by studying the regional characteristics of mortality from several diseases. For this purpose, a method of mathematical assessment based on the data on population mortality from diseases associated with smoking was developed and the regions were typified in terms of mortality associated with smoking, separately for men and for women. Based on the results, typological maps were constructed, and the regional differences in the structure of mortality from diseases associated with smoking were analyzed. A “northeastern gradient” of the effects of the tobacco epidemic in the structure and level of mortality was identified, as well as regional gender differences. If the consequences of male smoking, all other things being equal, are lower in the regions with a higher level of economic development and urbanization (excluding the regions of the Northern Caucasus), then for female smoking there are a number of violations of the regularity.
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Supporting agencies: Methods of mathematical assessment were elaborated and mapping was carried out under the research theme “Study of dynamics of socio-natural systems using geoinformation mapping and digital technologies” (state assignment). The data were collected and the mortality was evaluated under the research theme “Reproduction of population in socio-economic development” (АААА-А17-117062610054-1).
About the Authors
I. E. Kalabikhina
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Economics, Department of Population
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Head of Department, Professor, D.Sc. in Economics
P. O. Kuznetsova
RANEPA, Institute for Social Analysis and Forecasting
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Senior Scientific Researcher, Ph.D. in Economics
V. S. Tikunov
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Geography, Research Laboratory for Integrated Mapping
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Head of Laboratory, Professor, D.Sc. in Geography
O. Yu. Chereshnia
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Geography, Research Laboratory for Integrated Mapping
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Senior Scientific Researcher, Ph.D. in Geography
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Kalabikhina I.E., Kuznetsova P.O., Tikunov V.S., Chereshnia O.Yu. Smoking-associated mortality in Russian regions. Vestnik Moskovskogo universiteta. Seriya 5, Geografiya. 2021;(6):13-26. (In Russ.)
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