[The prevention of tuberculosis in middle Volga and fore-Urals regions].

The article presents last decade data concerning the level of tuberculosis in population of region, risk factors related to morbidity of tuberculosis in different groups of population. The activities of prevention of tuberculosis are discussed.

[The characteristics of population health of the city of Krasnodar].

The actual demographic situation (2000-2006) both in the city of Krasnodar and the Krasnodar Krai is characterized by the persistent population loss process. The stated data encloses the information relating to the morbidity of various population communities and the economic damage from somatic and infectious pathology. The levels of morbidity of the Krasnodar population due to the skin diseases are cited. The need to enhance the dermatological cosmetological preventive activities on the territorial level is noted.

[The viral hepatitis and its economic significance and prevention].

The reference of only part of diseases having contagious nature to the infectious pathology is closely related to the tradition of considering the infections as highly contagious diseases inclined to epidemic propagation. The data is presented related to the morbidity of viral hepatitis among the population of the City of Krasnodar. The corresponding economic losses and the achievements of medical preventive activities considering the social economic and other characteristics of the specific socium are considered.

[On the methodology of evaluation of the abiotic environmental risk factors impacting population health].

In the contemporary conditions of civilization progress, the population health is considered as a key backbone factor of national security. The development of the methodology of evaluation of risk factors for population health is important both for the strategy of management of human environment, a new integrating guideline of contemporary medical science--environmental medicine and for optimization of social hygienic monitoring with the view of providing the epidemiological well-being of population. Based on the synergistic approach, the algorithm of evaluation of abiotic risk factors for population health applying the equations of partial derivatives in such distributed natural systems as the environment.

[The risk of infectious morbidity among population under the pollution of the sanitary protective and recreation areas of water consumption in the city of Krasnodar].

The probability of development of public health derangements among population due to the anthropogenic pollution of the environment in the most cases depends on specific public, social economic and other characteristics of the community on the investigated territory. In the article the data related to the infectious morbidity developed because of water factor and due to the pollution of the soil and water in the sanitary protective and recreation areas of water consumption in the city of Krasnodar is presented. The mentioned recommendations include the organizational and medical preventive measures targeted to the optimization of the industrial and domestic water consumption and to the elimination the causes of the pollution of drinking water with xenobiotics in the centralized water supply system.

[A structure of the service on prevention of occupational pathologies in a large industrial city]. / Organizatsiia sluzhby po preduprezhdeniiu professional'nykh zabolevanii v krupnom promyshlennom gorode.

The reform of the medical service dealing with occupational pathologies in the city of Kazan, introduction of new management conditions involving the market-economy tools and emergence, in this connection, of patient-care and prevention facilities of different organizational-and-legal types had a negative effect on the health of employees occupied at hazardous and dangerous enterprises. Data related with the system of periodical prevention measures undertaken for the sake of health protection of able-bodied population are elucidated; methods of promoting the structure and management of the occupational-pathology service functioning under the conditions of a big industrial city are suggested.

[Regular medical check-ups of industrial workers in the city of Kazan]. / Organizatsiia profilakticheskikh meditsinskikh osmotrov promyshlennykh rabochikh v Kazani.

The organization of preliminary medical check-ups (PMC) and regular medical check-ups (RMC) of industrial workers is discussed under the conditions of the reform of the medical preventive care in the city of Kazan (at the stabilization stage). Data are presented on advancing and enhancing the efficiency of PMC and RMC in the major industrial city of the Tatar Republic.

[Prevention within the context of the healthcare reform in Russia]. / Profilaktika v usloviiakh reformirovaniia rossiiskogo zdravookhraneniia.

Healthcare and promotion of preventive care rendered to population of the Russian Federation are the main components of the whole social sphere. Perfection of the legal basis for the high-quality primary prevention is a precondition of success of the Russian healthcare reform as a whole. Implementation of social and medical prevention measures must turn into a united purpose for the activities of medical personnel, enterprise management and public organizations. Prevention issues belong to the sphere of combined economic and social interests of public and healthcare.

[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.

[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.

[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.