ABSTRACT
This is the third book in a trilogy that has set out to explore and analyse the impacts of social change in Russia since the fall of communism in 1991 (Manning, Shkaratan and Tikhonova, 2000; Manning and Tikhonova, 2004). The substantive issues covered in the first two books were respectively employment and labour markets, and poverty and social exclusion. In this book we turn to the issues of health and health care. All three books are based on extensive original data. Some of this has been gathered through representative sample surveys, but other data has come through detailed repeat interviews with a panel of households, some of whom have been interviewed six times across all three projects, since the original 1996 round. This is a unique qualitative panel of data that has been a significant methodological innovation.
