• Health Care Crisis: The Former Soviet Union, Christopher M. Davis, October 8, 1993, RFE/RL Research Report, Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty. An up-to-date assessment of health care conditions in the NIS. Tel: (202) 457-6097.

• Soviet Medicine Before and After the Fall, Mark G. Field, Summer 1992, Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin. A very readable, brief overview of the Soviet health care system. An extended version of the article will be included in The Social Legacy of Communism, edited by James Millar and Sharon Wolchik and available from Cambridge University Press in Spring 1994.

• Summary and Country Reports of the Medical Working Group Experts Delegation to the NIS and Pharmaceutical Production in Russia. Prepared for presentation to the Coordinating Conference on Assistance to the New Independent States in Lisbon, May 23-24, 1992. Book-length reports with charts and recommendations for action by Western governments and organizations. Available from USAID.

Periodicals

CommonHealth

A bi-monthly Russian-English newsletter of the American International Health Alliance. Includes essays by NIS and American physicians reflecting on their own professional exchanges, research reports and assessments of NIS health care conditions. see AIHA article for the address

Humanitarian Aid Newsletter

A monthly newsletter of the Moscow office of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Regularly carries health care-related surveys by affiliated Red Cross societies and other international humanitarian assistance organizations. Also includes news of work by NGOs in the NIS.

May also contact IFRC headquarters in Geneva:
Europe Dept.
IFRC
Case Postale 372
CH-1211 Geneve

Books

• "Take Care of Yourself: Your Personal Guide to Self-Care and Preventing Illness" (Vickery and Fries, Addison-Wesley, $16.95, 536 pp.) has sold millions of copies in the U.S. and been translated into German, Swedish, Greek, Japanese and 13 other languages. With adaptations for different national cultures and health systems, books like this can be extremely useful tools for general public health education. Consider taking a copy of a resource like this on your next visit, as a gift for a friend or a library, or as a suggestion to a publisher.

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