[Legislative and legal security of supervisory activities in the sphere of protection of consumers' rights and human well-being].

Sanitary legislation plays an important role in supervisory activities ensuring the protection of consumers' rights and human well-being. The paper considers the basic laws and standard acts allowing for legal regulation in this sphere of activities.

[Morbidity of workers with digestive diseases exposed to lead]. / Zabolevaemost' rabochikh bolezniami organov pishchevareniia v usloviiakh vodeistviia svintsa.

The morbidity with temporary disability was studied by the results of regular medical examinations of workers from a lead-producing plant. The working conditions at this plant exert adverse effects on digestive organs.

[Economic efficiency of medical care in the preparation of young men for military service]. / Ekonomicheskaia éffektivnost' meditsinskogo obespecheniia podgotovki iunoshei k voennoi sluzhbe.

The paper considers topical problems of medical examination of young men to define the category of their fitness for military service and organizational aspects of three-stage implementation in this area under the present conditions. Appropriate methods for evaluating economic efficiency have been developed and tested. They make it possible to deduce in situ an integral to assess activities in medical providing the preparation of young men for military service in the context of years, some nosological entities, and medical facilities.

[Risk factors for sexually transmitted infections in adolescents]. / Faktory riska zarazheniia molodezhi infektsiiami, peredavaemymi polovym putem.

The prevalence of sexually transmitted infections (STI) among young people in Russia is examined for the recent decade. Risk factors and organization of STI patients detection, the knowledge of young people about STI are analyzed. Approaches to prevention of these diseases in the society are outlined.

[Evaluation of efficacy and quality of occupational health departments in the Centers of State Sanitary and Epidemiologic Control]. / Opredelenie éffektivnosti i kachestva deiatel'nosti podrazdelenii gigieny truda tsentrov Gossanépidnadzora.

The article deals with methodologic, methodic and organization features to evaluate efficacy and quality of activities performed by occupational hygiene specialists and departments in I authority level Centers of State Sanitary and Epidemiologic Supervision. The author suggests a method measuring quality of the activities and a computered technology for sanitary and epidemiologic evaluation. The technology could be used in control over Centers of State Sanitary and Epidemiologic Supervision in their activity aimed to preserve sanitary and epidemiologic well-being for industrial workers.

[State of reproductive health of boys in St. Petersburg]. / Sostoianie reproduktivnogo zdorov'ia mal'chikov Sankt-Peterburga.

Complex medical social analysis of reproductive health of modern boys was carried out. Approaches to specialized care of boys and youths in St. Petersburg are presented. Measures aimed at creation of a universal staged specialized service including outpatient and inpatient care are offered. Standards were determined as regards care of boys with reproductive system disorders for primary health care centers and for the second component of specialized service, responsible for the major part of outpatient care. A comprehensive departmental system of medical care quality control is suggested, including public health administrative organs and clinical expert committees of treatment and prophylactic institutions.

[Improving the evaluation of the efficiency of hygiene departments of State Sanitary and Epidemiologic Surveillance Centers]. / Sovershenstvovanie otsenki kachestva deiatel'nosti gigienicheskikh podrazdelenii tsentrov gossanépidnadzora.

Methodological, technological, and organization characteristics of efficiency evaluation of specialists and hygienic departments engaged in a State Sanitary Surveillance (SSS) Center of the first level of management are presented. Main notions concerning the efficiency of SSS are formulated. A method for quantitative evaluation of the quality is offered, allowing comparison of compatible and equivalent parameters. Validation for mathematical models of efficiency and quality criteria is offered. Computer technology Sanepidotsenka (Sanitary epidemiological evaluation) is offered, which is used in the regulation of SSS Center activities aimed at maintenance of sanitary and epidemiological well-being of territories.

[Current problems in the formation of a system of monitoring health status of children and adolescents]. / Aktual'nye problemy formirovaniia sistemy monitoringa sostoianiia zdorov'ia detei i podrostkov.

Discusses obviously limited potentialities of obtaining systematized analytical data by organs and institutions of social sphere. Such potentialities are particularly low in public health, specifically pediatric research and practice, where analytical materials would help improve the development of strategic programs of maternity and childhood protection and adopt adequate managing solutions at all levels. One of the constructive decisions aimed at the formation of a system of sociohygienic monitoring of children's health and ensuring integration of efforts of all responsible organs is creation of Federal Center of Social prevention for Children and Adolescents. The Center will ensure economy and rational utilization of finances and staff at the state and territorial level. Its purpose is to unite the interests of all profile organs and institutions for ensuring social well-being of children and adolescents.

[Methodical approaches to studies of the efficiency and quality of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance]. / Metodicheskie podkhody k izucheniiu éffektivnosti i kachestva gossanépidnadzora.

Current methodology and organization of evaluations of the efficiency of specialists and subdivisions of sanitary epidemiological institutions of the first level of managing are presented. The authors propose a method for quantitative evaluation of the efficiency for comparison of compatible and equivalent values. Definitions essential for evaluation of the efficiency the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance are formulated. A demonstration model of computer processing of the data for estimations of efficiency of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance has been developed.

[Laboratory support of the State Sanitary and Epidemiologic Service under the new socioeconomic conditions]. / Laboratornoe obespechenie gossanépidsluzhby v novykh sotsial'no-ékonomicheskikh usloviiakh.

Structural and functional changes in the system of laboratory provision of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service under modern economic conditions had a positive impact on the number and quality of laboratory studies. The concept of rearrangement of laboratory service for the period of up to the year 2000 and its staff and material provision improved the quality of laboratory work and eventually the quality of sanitary epidemiological surveillance at the very first stages of its realization.

[Improving the planning of sanitary and epidemiological institutions under current conditions]. / Sovershenstvovanie planirovaniia deiatel'nosti sanépiduchrezhdenii v sovremennykh usloviiakh.

It is shown that valid annual planning of the activities of the State Epidemiological and Sanitary Control Service oriented on social well-being parameters helps determine the role of each specialist of the staff, the scope of the measures and their sequence, thus warranting effective work of the service.

[Organizational technologies and management of the organs and institutions of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance in the Russian Federation]. / Organizatsionnye tekhnologii i upravlenie deiatel'nost'iu organov i uchrezhdenii v sisteme gossanépidnadzora v sub"ektakh Rossiiskoi Federatsii.

The authors offer a scientifically-based rationale for the system of management of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service and its institutions under modern socioeconomic conditions in Russia. Organizational models of the structure of State Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance Centers are offered and their functions determined for various levels of management. A concept of development and organizational structure of the service and its institutions is proposed, aimed at provision of sanitary and epidemiological well-being in the Russian Federation.

[Assessing the effectiveness and quality of state epidemiologic surveillance and the activities of the first level sanitary epidemiologic institutions]. / Otsenka éffektivnosti i kachestva gossanépidnadzora v deiatel'nosti sanépiduchrezhdenii pervogo urovnia upravleniia.

Validates a complex of methodological approaches to assessing the efficiency of sanitary epidemiological institutions today. Shows the specificities of such assessment for the institutions of the first-level management. Validates a demonstration model for computer processing of data on the efficiency of departments of environmental hygiene and of specialists in this field and recommends this model for regional centers of State Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance.