[The alcoholism as a medical social problem].

The anti alcoholic policy in the Russian Federation has to be developed against a background of the enhancement of quality of statistics of mortality and actual losses due to alcoholisation. Also, the monitoring of epidemic aftermaths of the new framework of alcohol consumption among the youth and the results of target research studies of alcoholism situation in various social groups of Russia has to be considered.

[The national strategy of tuberculosis control in the Russian Federation].

The decrease of social and economic burden of tuberculosis is possible under conditions of acceptance of common national program targeted to the enhancement of prevention and medical care system, to the development of effective scientifically-grounded technologies of tuberculosis control and adequate measures of medical social post-treatment rehabilitation.

[Trend and sociodemographic structure of tuberculosis in the Russian Federation, its relation to the standards of living].

The social and occupational patterns of all new cases of tuberculosis were analyzed in 26 subjects of the Russia Federation, which had submitted their 2003-2007 databases in within the framework of the State Monitoring System. The social and occupational patterns of the patients were found to have changed insignificantly in the past 5 years. Both socioeconomic and geographical factors have a considerable impact on tuberculosis morbidity rates. The data demonstrate the influence of socioeconomic factors and, above all, the quality of life on the notified incidence of tuberculosis by the federal districts. At the same time, the analysis of morbidity rate formation in the institutions of the Federal Service of Execution of Punishments proved it important to apply a comprehensive approach to planning tuberculosis-controlling measures.

[The interrelationship of alcoholic psychoses and lethal alcohol intoxications with population cash income].

The analysis of dependence of alcoholic psychoses and lethal alcohol intoxications from the portion of poor population all over 87 regions of the Russian Federation revealed the decrease in alcoholism morbidity up to 70.7%. Thereby, the poorer is the territory the higher is the indexes of morbidity and mortality because of alcoholism.