ABSTRACT
It has been shown that when calculating the summarized population's health index and the significance (weight) of partial signs, it is expedient to use the calculation from the potential death risk index rather than an expert judgment. The results of calculation examples using morbidity and mortality rates suggest that public health can be assessed on this methodic ground. It is advisable to apply the proposed method for assessing the population's health during sanitary-and-epidemiological surveillance (sociohygienic monitoring) when decisions are taken on the lines of health-promotion measures to reduce morbidity and mortality mainly by circulatory diseases, neoplasms, injuries, and intoxications.
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Health Status , Morbidity/trends , Mortality/trends , Public Health , Adolescent , Adult , Age Factors , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Health Promotion , History, 20th Century , Humans , Middle Aged , Mortality/history , Risk Assessment , Russia , Urban PopulationABSTRACT
The paper analyzes the opinion of experts who determine the significance (weight) of the population's public health indices used for the integrated assessment of human health when sociomonitoring is made. The statistical assessments of the significance of the indices have been determined using the data obtained from the questioning of experts by the developed procedure. Conclusions on the practical use of the results of the performed study have been drawn.
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Models, Statistical , Public Health/standards , Humans , Surveys and QuestionnairesABSTRACT
The authors propose the system for evaluating health indices in the population of our country's region, which comprises groups of specific characteristics: demographic; environmental; environment-induced; overall morbidity (including socially induced); and socioeconomic. It has shown that the methods for analyzing a complex of the population's health indices should be aimed at having estimates of the efficiency of solution of practical problems in the maintenance of the population's health at a respective regional level. For their realization, an information analytical system of appropriate use should be developed; moreover, the results of processing the data with its use should be submitted for further analysis at the federal level.
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Environmental Monitoring , Health Status Indicators , Population Surveillance/methods , Health Promotion , Humans , RussiaABSTRACT
A scheme is proposed to calculate the overall human health indices by the values of partial grouped parameters: demographic, environmental, environment-induced, total (including social) morbidity; socioeconomic and preset threshold levels of their qualitative assessment. This method has been used to estimate morbidity rates in 7 Saint Petersburg districts.
