A study on the quality of life of indigenous peoples started in Ugra on the Day of National Solidarity with the help of the Klumba foundation with the support of the indigenous peoples organization “Save Ugra”. Dmitry Belov, researcher at the Federal Research Center of Sociology (FNISS) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told about this.
“Scientists in different countries have been studying the quality of life for a long time, but at the international level the authority in this field belongs to the World Health Organization. WHO has developed models for monitoring the quality of life for the provision of medical services and medicines, but this is not enough. The resources of the Klumba platform make it possible to study the entire population's access to social services, transport and additional education”, Belov said.
The results of the study will show which public and private services people in the district gravitate toward, the reasons for poor performance or refusal of services, which services are difficult to deliver, and which are too “managed.” The expectations and desires of all participants in the process of ensuring a decent quality of life for representatives of indigenous peoples will also be identified. The research was carried out on the Russian platform “Klumba”, which was specially created by scientists of the Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences to conduct research in the field of quality of life and has been proven in many regions of the country. It receives data about the services used by residents.
“In the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Oblast, we not only study the lives of people leading a traditional lifestyle in the tundra and taiga. The program also involves city residents of indigenous peoples, culturally linked to their families, but also guides the lifestyle of city residents. Representatives of indigenous peoples have their own life models and are also constantly looking for services and goods. We have a lot of work to do to Identify problem areas and study the reasons why people are satisfied or dissatisfied with their quality of life.”
More than 30 thousand representatives of indigenous peoples live in Khanty-Mansiysk Okrug – that is, Mansi, Khanty and Nenets. The region carries out programs to preserve and support the cultural heritage and traditional activities of the northern peoples, part of which are research activities, together with scientific centers of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
