ABSTRACT
The article considers the indicator of pathological affectedness to assess population health. This technique enables to forecast beforehand the occurrence of problematic situations in population health and development of diseases. The main elements of social hygienic evaluation of pathological affectedness of population including the results of mass diagnostics of population pathology on the basis of objective (macro-diagnostic, micro-diagnostic and functional analysis) and subjective (counseling, health self-assessment) assessments and the results of autopsy of the deceased from bureau of forensic medical examination and departments of morbid anatomy of large-size hospitals. The need in development of corresponding classifiers and prognostic criteria is declared to determine the relationship of pathological affectedness, the medical technologies demand, the optimization of organizational functional structure of public health, medical services and organizations.
