Russia Losing Battle in the Population Growth to Disease, Low birth rates

According to the author in his article, “Russia losing battle in the population growth to disease, low birth rates,” Russia’s government attempts to increase population by creating new system. First, most newborns die because of disease and most of the people who die are of a protective age because of disease and accidental death. As a result, a population is declineing so there is a shortage of workforce, military recruitment and family formation. After that, the author mentions that women have started to choose working instead of being mothers, and there is a dilapidated health care system. Therefore, there is a low birth rate and increased death rate, perceptively. The author also points out that Russia’s economy will collapse because it will not have enough people to fill out the job vacancies. Next, the author explains that Russians live at the poverty line, so they can’t go to the doctor for treatment; in addition, there are many factors that Russia’s government can’t control such as drugs, alcohol and violence. Finally, Russia’s government attempts to resolve its problem by lump sum payment to a family in order to help children, having more children rather than pension system to help them when they get older. There are differences in the views about whether migration could help to increase population. However, it may cause more harm than good, an experts say. In fact, in order to resolve the Russia population decline, there are three ways: improved health care system, improved pension system and migration.

First of all, there are many ways to resolve the population decline in Russia. One of these is to improve the health care system. For example, in order to increase birth rate, the health care system helps the newborn to fight the disease such as measles, typhoid fever and tuberculosis, which hurt the children. Also, it assists to reduce the death rate, especially, in a productive age, 15-45 years, so that the population can grow rapidly. The government is responsible for taking care of their people by helping them financially, especially those who live at the poverty line paying them at least for the health insurance.

Second, a pension system contributes to decreasing population. In other words, parents will be having one or two children enough, because when parents get retired and have a good payment from the government to support them, parents don’t need to have more children as laborers. I believe that a pension system will eliminate the need for a person to have many children to support them when they become in old age.

Finally, the population was changed in Russia because of migration. People leave other countries because they are looking for jobs and a better life. Even though Russia’s economy is booming by the oil price is high, the government still pays to its employmes low salary. Because a low salary, the people immigrate to the new country. Actually, it is difficult to get people who have made their life in anther country to came back home. The government should think about a solution to stop them such as it should be there minimum wage to force them.

In conclusion, the health care system, pension system and migration play a big role in the population. The population is declining in Russia despite the economy booming. In fact, the death rate is increasing because of the dilapidated health care system and the cost of treatment, the way to make pension system better and migration within or out of the country lead to the population, and I believe that Russia will still have to cope with its rising death rates and declining births. We should help the government to increase the population to help the country and the generation in the future

Russia Losing Battle in the Population Growth to Disease, Low birth. (2006, March 8). The Voice of America. Retrieved July 15, 2007, from Lexis Nexis database.