The generals do not just imprison thousands of political prisoners: they have turned their country into a place where life expectancy has collapsed to around 55, and growth has vanished.
Previous articles examined the reasons for the decline in life expectancy in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union, looked at care inside a Moscow hospital, described private health care, examined some of the reasons behind a lower birth rate and gave an account of the spread of infectious diseases.
Thanks to a combination of ravaging infectious diseases, an atrocious health-care system, and the military regime's refusal to admit that anything is amiss, public-health officials fear that average life expectancy is collapsing.
The average life expectancy here has collapsed from 60 in 1960 to 48 today.
In contrast to more pessimistic predictions, humanity has not collapsed, and, on the contrary, in the last 1,000 years, life expectancy has increased significantly, violence indicators have decreased, and average income has grown exponentially.
Most social services including health care have collapsed; under- 5 mortality rate is one in four and life expectancy is approximately 50 years [ 1].
Whereas Syria's public health indicators were improving before the war, and the country was experiencing an increase in life expectancy and changing disease patterns from communicable to non-communicable diseases, its health system has now collapsed [ 11, 12].
All categories collapsed, the four most consistent variables associated with euthanasia among physicians are the patient's life expectancy (75.0%), physicians' medical specialty, unit or work setting (66.6%), the patient's symptoms and suffering (57.1%) and physicians' religion (55.5%).
It is clear now that Russian life expectancy peaked at 68.8 years in 1965 and, but for a brief aberration in the 1980's, had fallen about nine months by the time the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
