[Current aspects of the Russian Federation population's mortality from diseases of the respiratory system].

Diseases of the respiratory system are in the lead of general mortality of population, they tend to increase, particularly with regard to pneumonias, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, bronchial asthma and others. The paper surveys the structure and levels of mortality from diseases of the respiratory system, sex and age indices with special reference to the working age, the mortality dynamics since 2000, levels of mortality by regions with special reference to subjects with the minimum and maximum levels both for the total and by the main nosologies (pneumonia, diseases of the lower respiratory tract, bronchial asthma); an attempt is made to carry out the correlation analysis of the level of mortality from diseases by the main nosologies.

[To the tenth anniversary of implementation of the international statistical classification of diseases (ICD-10) and into public health of the Russian Federation].

The ten-year experience of implementation of international statistical classification of diseases (ICD-10) in Russia confirmed its significance for national public health as a convenient tool for statistical analysis. However, the application of certain measures is needed to use this modern statistical instrument in a more effective way.

[The problems of diagnostics, treatment and prevention arrangement in patients of therapeutic profile].

The recent data research from many countries demonstrates that severe and sometime irreversible complications as a result of inadequate manipulations of physicians affect hundreds of thousands of people. The defects of treatment are more obvious in surgery than in therapy. To qualify the manipulations of the therapist as proper or non-proper is much more difficult as compared with erroneous conclusion in diagnostics. Underestimation and belated resolution of this issue is fraught with the most grave consequences.

[Social-hygienic characteristics of patients on hemodialysis]. / Sotsial'no-gigienicheskaia kharakteristika bol'nykh, nakhodiashchikhsia na gemodialize.

The results of a sociological inquiry held at 7 Moscow inpatient facilities on the basis of "a questionnaire designed for studying the social-and-hygienic life conditions of artificial-kidney patients" are described in the paper. They are indicative of that a majority of patients have a sufficiently high assessment of their life quality although they experience a constant need in hemodialysis and their vital activity is significantly limited in view of such severe pathology as chronic renal insufficiency. This can be regarded as a positive factor within a system of measures undertaken in the treatment of the above disease.

[Social and hygienic factors of pharmacological market in Russia]. / Sotsial'no-gigienicheskie aspekty farmatsevticheskogo rynka v Rossii.

Although there is a huge variety of medical drugs, the practitioner finds it sometimes difficult to choose an appropriate drug for his patient; the insurance companies, striving for maximal profits, do their best to make the treatment as cheap as possible and to limit the doctor in his choice of preparations; and the manufacturers, seeking to reduce the production costs and make as much profit as possible, give up the research projects and purchase lower-quality substances abroad, facilitate the technologies and neglect the stage-by-stage quality control. However, the inaccessibility of medical drugs due to their high prices (not all patients can allow buying the needed drugs, and there is also a danger that one can buy a counterfeit) still persists to be the key problem. The above stated leads to a poorer treatment quality and a lower status of the national health as a whole.