[Computerized technologies in public health administration]. / Komp'iuterizatsiia upravleniia zdravookhraneniem v regione.

The paper deals with the problems in making the computer monitoring of qualitative, quantitative, structural, and functional indices at all levels of the public health system in the Sverdlovsk Region. The sources of information were defined at all levels of an informational field and informational channels were set up. The monitoring systems are reinforced by the currently available systems and the systems under design. The programme complexes realize the methods of multifactorial analysis, taxonomy, econometry, identification of large systems and they are adjusted to the existing information collection system based on the corporative control network of public health.

[Analysis of tuberculosis mortality dynamics in Sverdlovsk region in 1995-96]. / Analyz dinamiki smertnostiot tuberkuleza v Sverdlovskoí oblasti v 1995-96 gg.

Among the deceased in the Sverdlovsk Region in 1995 - 1996 there was a larger proportion of males and individuals aged over 40 years, unemployed, homeless persons, patients with infiltrative pulmonary tuberculosis, concomitant diseases and a smaller proportion of those with prolonged pulmonary tuberculosis, its fibrocavernous type, persons who died from secondary nonspecific changes and complications of the tuberculosis process. Today the most common causes of premature death due to tuberculosis are in patients' refusal of treatment, systemic incompliance, a severe concomitant disease, contraindications for surgical treatment, drug resistance to tuberculostatic agents, drug shortage, late referral for medical aid and long-term evasion of prophylactic surveys for tuberculosis.

[Tuberculosis mortality in Sverdlovsk region under the present conditions]. / Smertnost' ot tuberkuleza v Sverdlovskoi oblasti v sovremennykh usloviiakh.

The tuberculosis mortality rate is the most informative epidemiological indicator. Tuberculosis mortality in the Sverdlovsk Region in 1989-1996 directly, closely, and significantly correlated with tuberculosis morbidity and general mortality. The structure of manpower losses caused by premature tuberculosis mortality due to antituberculosis work defects included one third of losses associated with the defects of antituberculosis work, about one fourth of those with the general therapeutical network, one tenth of those with sanitary epidemiological surveillance centers and another approximately one third with failure of detection and treatment of patients with tuberculosis.