Fertility and reproductive attitudes of the population of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug is a major oil-producing region in Russia with a favorable demographic situation and a range of measures in place to support families with children. The reproductive attitudes of the population of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and the factors of their implementation were discussed at the seminar "Fertility and reproductive attitudes of the population of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug: results of an expedition trip", organized by the International Laboratory for Population and Health, HSE University.
The report was presented by Olga Rodina, a research assistant at the International Laboratory for Population and Health, a PhD student at the HSE Vishnevsky Institute of Demography.
Conference "Current issues of Russian Demography"
Can human life expectancy be more than 100 years? How do heat and cold waves affect mortality? Do the elderly experience isolation from society? Does alcohol-related mortality differ by region of Russia? These and other issues were discussed on November 8 at the international conference "Current issues of Russian Demography" organized by International Laboratory for Population and Health.
Seminar presentation of the UN World Population Prospects 2024
On the evening of July 11, 2024, World Population Day, the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs presented the updated World Population Prospects 2024. On July 12, the International Laboratory for Population and Health Research in collaboration with the National Center for Population and Health Research of the National Research University Higher School of Economics held a seminar to present the new projections, where they also discussed the population projections for Russia prepared by Federal State Statistics Service, projections of the Global Burden of Disease and the health of the elderly in the context of population aging.
Seminar “Excess mortality in the US during the COVID-19 pandemic”
On June 4, the “Modern Demography” seminar featured a presentation by Ekaterina Degtiareva, research assistant at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, University of Oxford, on excess mortality in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Seminar "Demographic development of Kazakhstan in the late 20th - early 21st centuries: state and problems"
On May 14, at the "Modern Demography" seminar, representatives from the international research center "Digital Social Research" at D. Serikbayev East Kazakhstan Technical University (Republic of Kazakhstan) presented reports on the ethnic and demographic situation in Kazakhstan during the 20th and early 21st centuries, as well as on the level of demographic security in Kazakhstan.
Russian Short-Term Mortality Fluctuations Data Series as a new tool for population health and mortality research in Russia
On October 24, 2023, the staff of theInternational Laboratory for Population and Health presented a new tool for research in health and mortality of the Russian population: the Russian Database of Short-term Mortality Fluctuations, created within the framework of the project "Monitoring and Forecasting of Life Expectancy Based on Current Statistics"
Seminar "Son preference and its impact on fertility in Central Asia and the Middle East: cohort comparison"
On May 23, PhD student of Stockholm University Konstantin Kazenin spoke at the seminar "Modern Demography" about the son preference and its impact on fertility in Central Asia and the Middle East in cohort comparison.
The researches of the International Laboratory for Population and Health at the XXIV Yasin (April) International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development
On April 4, researchers of the International Laboratory of Population and Health presented the results of their work at the XXIV Yasin (April) International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development.
Seminar "Models of the dynamics of viral infections and the impact of quarantine measures on the mental health of the population"
On March 3, at the seminar "Modern Demography", representatives of the Marchuk institute of numerical mathematics of the Russian academy of sciences, graduate student Andrey Vlad and Ph.D. Tatiana Sannikova talked about modeling the seasonality of viral infections and the impact of quarantine measures on the mental health of the population.
Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the dynamics of life expectancy
On December 15, 2022, the International Laboratory for Population and Health and Human Capital Multidisciplinary Research Center held the seminar “Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the dynamics of life expectancy".