[The means of optimization of medical care support of victims of road traffic accidents at the hospital stage: The publications review].

The road traffic traumatism remains among the most actual medical social problems in Russia. The injured because of road traffic accidents suffer of predominant severe multiple and combined injuries (polytrauma) very often resulting in permanent disablement and lethal outcomes. The existing three-level system of traumatologic centers to supply specialized medical care of the injured in road traffic accidents demonstrates efficiency only on condition of observation of routing of patients. The new organizational approaches to specialized medical care to the injured at the hospital stage is needed for further decreasing of lethality and disability in group of victims of road traffic accidents.

[The social hygienic aspects of disability and mortality in the Archangelskaya oblast].

The article analyses the indicators of disability and mortality in Archangelskaya Oblast. The medical sociological study of the disabled patients of able-bodied age was organized based on the characteristics of working activities and labor potentials to establish the prospective of involvement of this population category into the social economic development of the region. The emphasis is made upon the specific of population mortality in Archangelskaya oblast due to the external causes impact as a priority trend in enhancing the regional policy of medical demographic development.