HITT-2008 (FP7)

Project Executive authority:

INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES (INSTITUT FUR HOHERE STUDIEN)

Project domain:

Health, Demographic Change and Wellbeing

Project deadline:

Tue, 30 Apr 2013

Project website:

http://www.hitt-cis.net/

Person responsible:

Olga Danii

E-mail:

office@opinia.md

Phone:

+373 22 23 74 35

Project objectives:

“Health in Times of Transition: Trends in Population Health and Health Policies in CIS Countries“ (HITT-CIS) is an international research project that will study, in detail, trends in population health and health policies in 10 countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine). Its main objectives are to measure and explain prevalence and distribution of risk factors, health outcomes, and their social, cultural, and economic determinants; to develop and implement validated community profiles to capture the opportunities and obstacles to leading a healthy lifestyle; to assess health system performance, focussing on accessibility and quality of health services; to quantify the cost of ill health through reduced labour supply and productivity; to identify opportunities for and obstacles to policy change in Russia; market analysis; regional analysis of alcohol -related mortality in Ukraine.

Health in Times of Transition: Trends in Population Health and Health Policies in CIS Countries

Period: 01/05/2009 to 30/04/2013

Total cost: 3.350.212

Budget from EC: 3.000.000

Funding scheme: CP

Coordinator: INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES (INSTITUT FUR HOHERE STUDIEN)

ACTIVITIES

The study combines specialist expertise in public health with epidemiological and social science methods. Public health expert identify key areas relevant to policy and define areas for research, while the social scientists develop and refine a wide range of sociological measurement tools and techniques. This combination will provide new insights into an underresearched but extremely important issue.

EXPECTED RESULTS AND OUTCOMES

HITT-CIS will bring concrete benefits by providing recommendations to improve public health policies and interacting with national and international stake-holders by: disseminating findings within each country and to EU policymakers and international researchers; capacity building through training of researchers; identifying policy implications based upon research evidence.

PARTNERS:

COORDINATOR:

INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES (INSTITUT FUR HOHERE STUDIEN)

Alexander Chvorostov

alex.chv@ihs.ac.at

+431 599 91 230

Austria

CENTER FOR SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES MGU (MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY)

Sergei Tumanov

St156@mail.ru

+495-203-32-69

Russian Federation