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Central Federal District - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (185 words) |
 | Central Federal District (Russian: Центра́льный федера́льный о́круг; tr. |
 | : Tsentralny federalny okrug) is one of the seven federal districts of Russia. |
 | The word "Central" is of political and historical meaning; actually the district is situated in the extreme West of Russia. |
| Health Reform in Russia and Central Asia (9263 words) |
 | Russia's Ministry of Economy estimates that enterprises owned and maintained 8 percent of all outpatient clinics and 6 percent of all hospitals in the country overall, though the shares were much higher in certain regions (Mikhailev, 1996). |
 | The challenge to Russia and the Central Asian countries is to improve the health status of their populations at a time of economic decline while maintaining the strengths of the old system in terms of equity and access. |
 | The elasticities are 0.98 for Uzbekistan, 0.93 for Kazakstan, 0.94 for Kyrgyz Republic, 1.07 for Russia, 1.05 for Tajikistan, and 0.87 for Turkmenistan. |