To Serve without Health?
Inadequate Nutrition and Health Care in the Russian Armed Forces

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

• EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
  
  
• BACKGROUND
  
  Russia’s Health Crisis
  Human Rights and the Armed Forces
  
  
  
• THE RIGHT TO ADEQUATE FOOD
  
  Official Standards
  Actual Diet
  
  Missing Foods
  Concerns about Quality and Hygiene
  
  Hazing and the Right to Food
  
  Too Little Time to Eat
  Confiscating Food
  
  The Government’s Response
  
  
  
• THE RIGHT TO ADEQUATE MEDICAL CARE
  
  Background on Living Conditions
  Access to Medical Care
  
  Pressure Not to Seek Medical Care and Repercussions
  Superiors Refusing Access to Medical Care
  Apparent Inadequacy of Sick Bays
  
  Physical Abuse and Harassment at Sickbays and Hospitals
  
  Abuse at Sickbays
  Physical and Other Abuse in Military Hospitals
  
  Military Hospital 442
  Other Military Hospitals
  
  
  
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

November 2003     Vol.15 No.9(D)

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