Generational Health at the Heart of Demographic Policy
Russia’s demographic development programme aims to achieve sustainable population growth by 2030 and a higher life expectancy. The programme needs to accomplish strategic goals such as lower death rate and higher birth rate. Plus, it needs to raise the understanding within the society that the people are responsible for their own health. To meet the challenges the demographic agenda presents, comprehensive inter-agency cooperation is required in the medical, socio-economic, and cultural fields. Amidst this cooperation, aside from the protection of family health and strengthening of social guarantees, creating a health-preserving environment is key. Health education, risk prevention, early disease detection and treatment combined with morality and respect for family values in the public consciousness can maximize the demographic effect and promote economic growth. How can we reverse the downward trend in the birth rate? What measures can be taken to address the problem of high mortality rates, especially among men of working age? Why does health preservation drive economic development? What factors of health-preserving environment development require priority governmental work today? How can society be motivated to lead a healthy lifestyle and have a responsible attitude of the whole family to their health?
Moderators
Oleg Apolikhin,
Director, N.A. Lopatkin Research Institute of Urology and Interventional Radiology, a branch of the National Medical Research Centre for Radiology of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Chief Specialist of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation for Reproductive Health
Alexander Galushka,
Vice President, Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation
Panellists
Mariya Grudina,
Ideologist, Founder, First Line. Health Care Resort
Natalya Dolgushina,
Deputy Director - Head of the Department for Organization of Scientific Activities, National Medical Research Center for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology named after Academician V.I. Kulakov of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
Olga Kobyakova,
Director, Federal Research Institute for Health Organization and Informatics of Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
Sergey Rybalchenko,
General Director, Institute for Scientific Public Expertise
Oleg Salagay,
Deputy Minister of Health of the Russian Federation (online)
Mark Slater,
General Director, Portavita Health
Igor Shaderkin,
Head of the Healthcare Laboratory, Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education “I.M. Sechenov "of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
Front row participants
Marina Ippolitova,
Chief Physician, Juventa City Center for Reproductive Health of Adolescents
Ekaterina Molyukova,
Program Manager, Board Member, Amway Charitable Foundation
Natalya Moskvitina,
Member, Russian Public Chamber; Presenter, Spas TV Channel; and Co-Founder and President, Women for Life Charitable Foundation for Supporting Family, Motherhood, and Childhood
Tatyana Tolstova,
Chairperson, Leningrad Regional Branch of the "Union of Women of Russia" All-Russian Public and State Organization