How Russia can further improve its tobacco taxation efforts to boost health and life expectancy

Over the past 10 years Russia has made great progress in increasing the life expectancy of its people. Back in the mid-2000s, we documented the dramatic decrease in life expectancy in the post-...

Patricio V. Marquez, Sevil Salakhutdinova |
Education, Health

Maternal mortality: Why have some regions seen progress while others struggle?

New estimates released today by the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and the World Bank show that the...

Samuel Mills, Emi Suzuki |
Gender, Education, Health