[The social statistics in the public health study].

The article deals with a wide range of technical and practical issues concerning the implementation of social statistics in the study of public health on the basis of the methodology developed in the RAMS National Research Institute of public health and the RAMS Novgorod Research center. It is emphasized that a significant lag of social statistics as applied to the study of public health issues of prevents full fledge implementation of its capabilities in the development of public policy in the field of population health promotion. In this connection, the elaboration of the indicators of social causation of public health and their implementation in the process of development of strategic management decision-making, including the federal and regional medical social programs.

[The role of public health in the implementation of the demographic policy concept on the regional level].

The major trends of the social demographic processes in the Novgorodskaya oblast are characterized. The activities to increase the level of natality rate and to enhance the population reproductive health are proposed. The set of measures is developed to decrease the mortality of population of able-bodied age. The prospective results of demographic policy applied in the Novgorodskaya oblast up to 2011 are exposed. The role of public health in the enhancement of demographic situation on the regional level is specified.

[On certain systematic approaches applied in the population health research].

The new systematic approaches to the study of population health based on the morbidity analysis, organism functional reserves assessment, diseases pre-nozoologic diagnostics according to the stages of development of adaptation syndrome are proposed. The application of these integrated techniques makes it possible to look in a different way on the distinction between the norm and the pathology in the evaluation of individual health with the emphasis on the analysis of pre-morbidic states which statistical registration is hindered. These approaches can be assumed as a basis for the development of health-centered pattern of public health aimed first of all to enhance the capacity of healthy individuals and to increase the valuable attitude of population to one's own health.

[Methodology and main results of complex study of health state of population in Novgorod region].

In 2005-2006 years the complex study of health state of population in Novgorod region was performed. The key methodological problems of state-of-the-art social and statistic analyses of public health were described in the article. Comparative analysis of health state of population in Novgorod region in 1985 and 2005 years was performed. Significant changes in characteristics of morbidity and public health occurred during 20 years were shown. New integral indices of public morbidity developed.

[The public health as the object under investigation in the frame of social science].

The issues of theoretical interaction and interconditionality of actual social science studies in the field of public health and health care are considered. Especially, the fundamental aspects of the analysis of these phenomena are specified from the standpoint of micro- and macro-sociology, sociology of economics, theory of social stratification, sociology of law, political sociology, sociology of culture and certain particular sociological theories, sociology of medicine.

[The prevalence of the arterial hypertension and associated risk factors among population of various gender and age].

To study the pubescent characteristics of the prevalence of the arterial hypertension, the hyperglycemia, the hypercholesterolemia, the overweight and their combination the comprehensive examination of 4837 citizen of the City of Veliki Novgorod and Novgorod oblast aged from 20 to 87 years was organized. The analysis revealed in the examined territory the higher prevalence of hypertension and other studied risk factors and their combination are strongly related to the gender and the age of population. The prevalence of the obesity and the hyperglycemia, the combination of the overweight with the arterial hypertension and the hyperglycemia and the combination of the arterial hypertension with the hyperglycemia as well are significantly higher in the female subpopulation and in the elder population. It is established that the arterial hypertension affects about 46.80% of the adult population. The hyperglycemia is detected in 6.039% of cases. The prevalence of the fore-obesity and the obesity itself among male population consists of 50.4% and among female population--63.1%. The I degree obesity occurs among the females twice time more often than among the males; the II degree obesity--fourth times more often and the III degree obesity--sixth times more often. Among the females, as compared with the males, the prevalence of the combination of the arterial hypertension with the overweight is 1.5 times higher, the combination of the arterial hypertension with the hyperglycemia--1.7 times higher and the combination of the overweight with the hyperglycemia--1.7 times higher.

[Methodological principles of comprehensive evaluation of population health status]. / Metodicheskie osnovy kompleksnoi otsenki sostoianiia zdorov'ia naseleniia.

The author specified methodology for morbidity studies included into complex evaluation of public health.

[Present-day socially significant diseases]. / Sotsial'no znachimye bolezni sovremennosti.

The author concludes that only understanding of the close relationship between the level of economic development, high morals of the society, and population health, and implementation of a complex of political, state, and economic measures will lead to the solution of public health problems.

[Development of monitoring of population health, environment and public health at a regional level]. / O razrabotke monitoringa zdorov'ia naseleniia, sredy obitaniia i deiatel'nosti zdravookhraneniia na regional'nom urovne.

A structural model of monitoring, intending the creation of a multifunctional multi-level information system, is suggested for creation of a universal information analytical data bank on population health, human environment, and public health activities at a regional level.

[Aspects of silicotuberculosis course in workers of highly aluminous mullite refractories]. / Osobennosti techeniia silikotuberkuleza u rabochikh na proizvodstve vysokoglinozemistykh mullitovykh ogneupornykh izdelii.

The article covers differential diagnostic features of pulmonary tuberculosis and pneumoconiosis in workers engaged into mullite refractories production. The authors suggest that the disease courses as a new form of lung disorder--mullitosis.

[Clinical features of respiratory diseases caused by mullite dust]. / Klinicheskie osobennosti zabolevanii organov dykhaniia pri vozdeistvii mullitovoi pyli.

The authors evaluate clinical peculiarities of chronic bronchitis, silicotuberculosis and pneumoconiosis (mullitosis) in workers exposed to highly aluminiferous clay.

[Approaches to improving drug supply to the population]. / Puti sovershenstvovaniia lekarstvennogo obespecheniia naseleniia.

The official record system has been introduced at public health institutions of the Novgorod region 3 years ago. It helped regulate the drug supply at medical institutions and in the region at large.