Colloquial Russian

Unit 16: Health care 229

• Introduced in 2007 to boost the birth rate, this is a grant payable on the
  birth of second and subsequent children to be used for their education or
  housing.

апте�ка chemist’s (shop)

беспокоить, по- II� to worry

боле�знь (f) illness

борьба� против � struggle against

(+ gen)

вводи�ть II (impf) to introduce

во вся�ком in any case

слу�чае

зави�симость (f) dependence

кампа�ния по campaign to

поощре�нию encourage

матери�нский maternity grant*

капита�л

многоде�тная large family

семья�

обору�дование equipment

повышать I � (impf) to increase

посо�бие benefit

прави�тельство government

приорите�т priority

разви�тие и developement

примене�ние and use

расти� I to grow

рожда�емость (f) birth rate

сме�ртность (f) death rate

тяжёлое difficult situation

положе�ние

уменьш║а�ться I, to decrease

-иться II

эффекти�вный effective

1 What problems has the Russian Health Service experienced

recently?

2 What improvements are taking place?

3 Is Russia still dependent on the import of medicines?

4 How is the government trying to encourage the birth rate in

Russia?

5 What, in the professor’s opinion, is the most important problem?

Слова�рь

Боле�ть/больно�й

There are two verbs with the infinitive боле�ть:

(a) бoлеть� 1st conjugation (я бoле�ю, ты болеeшь� etc.) means ‘to be ill’:

Я никогда� нe боле�ю

‘I am never ill’.

Он бoле�eт гри�ппом

‘Не is ill with flu’.

B де�тстве я боле�л скарлати�ной

‘I was ill with (had) scarlet fever as a child’.