[Dietary iodine provision of the population in the Krasnoyarsk Territory].

The paper analyzes the time course of changes in the intake of staple foods in the Krasnoyarsk Territory in 1998-2005. It is shown that the ingestion of iodine-rich foods has not increased greatly and it is low and does not provide the population with this essential micronutrient. The actual content of iodine in the study samples of food and its raw material is several times less than the tabulated values. The contribution of the staple foods to the provision of the Krasnoyarsk Territory's population with iodine is assessed. The total level of dietary iodine deficiency is estimated. Iodine-fortified salt and foods should be widely used under special conditions providing the transportation and storage of biologically value foods, during which there are inevitable losses of the trace element occur.

[Schooling conditions and children's morbidity at schools of small towns of the Krasnoyarsk Territory].

The paper gives a brief analysis of the prevalence and trends of childhood morbidity in small towns of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Morbidity in small towns is shown to be greater than the average territorial rate. The increase in overall morbidity in children is affected by the schooling environment where a child stay 6-8 hours daily and that ensures no conditions for keeping and promoting the child's health at school at the present stage. Monitoring of material resources yields a special territorial program whose major task is to increase the sanitary-and-epidemiological well-being at general educational establishments.

[The complex hygienic characteristics preventive iodine deficiency in population of Siberia].

In the research we used hygienic, social-hygienic and statistical methods. The study showed that 58,3-88,1% of examined children in Siberia, in the north, south and in the center of Krasnoyarsk territory suffer from iodine deficiency. There was no difference iodine content medians between boys and girls. Preventive iodine deficiency which arise at absence or decrease in food and are the reason of many illness, is important and till now a unresolved problem of Krasnoyarsk areas.