[Attitude of medical personnel to the health care reform]. / Otnoshenie meditsinskikh rabotnikov k reformam v zdravookhranenii.

A total of 953 managers and doctors, specializing in various spheres at therapeutic-and-prevention facilities, were polled on the basis of questionnaires for the purpose of assessing the healthcare personnel attitude towards the changes occurring in society and inside their branch. The thus obtained results are presented in the article.

[Medical demographic characteristics of long livers of the Bashkortostan Republic]. / Mediko-demograficheskaia kharacteristika dolgozhitelei Respubliki Bashkortostan.

Results of comprehensive studies of medico-social problems of long-living subjects in the Bashkortostan Republic are presented. The number of subjects aged over 90 years, particularly male, notably increased during the recent decade. The family and marital status of long-livers is characterized. Virtually all of them had families and children, often more than 3; by the moment of the study they lived with children or grandchildren and were active, their life style corresponding to their age and physical status.

[Role of the family in the prevention of diseases of the oral cavity in children]. / Rol' sem'i v profilaktike boleznei polosti rta u detei.

Sociohygienic studies of hygienic knowledge with regard to prevention of dental diseases in children were carried out in 456 mothers and their 15-year-old schoolchildren in Ufa. The respondents were interviewed using specially designed questionnaires. The results allowed the authors characterize the performance of medical functions by parents from families differing by well-being and their role in hygienic upbringing of children.

[Therapeutic and prophylactic care of disabled children under conditions of a pediatric outpatient clinic]. / Kharakter i osobennosti lechebno-profilakticheskoi pomoshchi detiam-invalidam v usloviiakh detskoi polikliniki.

The volume and type of treatment and prophylactic care rendered on an outpatient basis to children during a year is assessed based on a sampling from files of 2083 disabled children living in a large industrial city Ufa. In contrast to the entire population of children, each disabled child receives more visits from doctors at home and visits the health center more often. The majority of visits to the health center are for treatment and diagnosis and for consultations. Local doctors are visited mainly for prevention. The activity of local nurses responsible for follow-up of disabled children is low.

[Children morbidity in the first 3 years of life in the family]. / Osobennosti formirovaniia zabolevaemosti detei pervykh 3 let zhizni v sem'e.

The purpose of the study was to explore in detail the health status of children of the first three years of life. As many as 450 children born in 1977-1981 were examined. It has been established that the children's morbidity in the following life periods is influenced by the time of the first disease onset and social and hygienic conditions of the child's life.