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Dear friends! WOMAN PLUS... continues to inform our readers about some self evident as well as latent transformations our society is going through. Jerky and uncertain is our pace from social Chaos towards those state which might be called a civil society. Now we make senseless leaps from side to side, and now for a long time make no progress at all. Eternal Russian paradox: as if we are going together, step by step along with others, just finding oneselves in a quite opposite place. In this issue we with the help of sociologists, psychologists and analytics try again to understand ourselves, to realise our belonging to the society and to share responsibility for its future, to think about our own nature: do we live in disagreement or in agreement with it.

Transition of society and economics is closely tied with a theme of health exciting for everybody. Care for one's own health acquires more and more economic and legal aspects. Problems we are going to report about regularly concern public health management, interaction between specialists of different fields: doctors, psychologists, lawyers, social service workers, availability of medical information, interaction between doctor and patient...

Traditionally patient is nothing more than an object of medical service application. His or her main mission is to believe and obey implicitly all the prescriptions of a doctor. However a different opinion also exists: to trust blindly one s own health to somebodies hands is at least unreasonable. Both points of view have theirs pro and contra. One thing is beyond doubt: only as soon as we would have enough knowledge available about our own body, could listen to it and would learn to understand processes going on in it (as far as it is possible in principle), we would no longer be just "objects" and would be able to cooperate with a doctor. WOMAN PLUS... invites our readers to inform each others about interesting facts concerning reproductive health, childrens health, contraception methods as well as prevention of different diseases. We shall also publish materials concerning medical aspects directly in social context.

Happy New Year! We wish you love, health, good spirits, self confidence and successes in any of your undertakings! Our best respects, editorial board.

The magazine is being published by The "EAST-WEST" Women Innovation Foundation by means obtained from the German feminist foundation "FRAUEN-ANSTIFTUNG" and Ministry of Econonomic Cooperation of the Federal Republic of Germany.

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