[Course work as means of developing logical thinking in the instruction of medical students]. / Kursovaia rabota kak sredstvo formirovaniia logicheskogo myshleniia v obuchenii studentov-medikov.

The carrying out of course assignments by medical students at the chair of social hygiene and public health administration is proposed for the wide application as a means of promoting the development of creative thinking in students. The course assignments fulfilled on the basis of data on regional peculiarities, characteristics of the population's health and health services while approximating students to the real practical activity promote the development of skills in the analysis, synthesis, generalization, concretization and other intellectual abilities absolutely indispensable for the future doctors.

[A new form of rehabilitation of sick children in preschool institutions and its effectiveness]. / Novaia forma reabilitatsii bol'nykh detei v doshkol'nykh uchrezhdeniiakh i ee éffektivnost'.

A new form of organizing treatment for children attending preschool institutions is proposed which permits to reduce morbidity in nursery groups of preschool institutions, lower the risk of disadaptation, redistribute curative and preventive work in ambulatory setting in favour of the latter and also reduce disease-caused temporary disability associated with caring for a sick child.

[Rehabilitation of patients suffering from closed spinal trauma with damage to the spinal cord]. / Reabilitatsiia bol'nykh pri zakrytoi travme pozvonochnika s povrezhdenniem spinnogo mozga.

Results of complex rehabilitative treatment of 652 patients with above kind of pathology are examined. Outcomes of motor mobility depending on the level and severity of the injury are shown. In spine-spinal cord injury 77.3% of patients could walk using supplementing devices. The percent of I group invalidity depending on the level of spinal cord injury varies from 74.6-92.7%, II group invalidity--0.8-7.5%, III group invalidity--0.8-3.5%.