[THE CRISIS PHENOMENA AND HEALTH].

The analysis was carried out concerning impact of cyclicity of social economic development on population health of the Russian Federation. The conclusions are made related to necessity of determining priorities of development of national system of population health care.

[Regional characteristics of population health in Russia: an analytical review].

Analytical consideration of state and trends of regional health processes in population of Russia is presented. Data provided by health administrations of various subjects of Russian Federation and researchers findings is used.

[Regional characteristics of population health in Russia: an analytical review].

Analysis of state and trends of processes defining population health in various regions of Russia based both on official administrative statistic releases from various regions of Russian Federation and proper data is presented.

[Topical issues of informatization in public health and medical science].

Relevant trends in informatization progress in Russian public health and medical science are justified. Actual processes in population health are considered.

[Medicodemographic problems in Russian Federation].

The authors of the article analyze the current health status of Russian population and underline the necessity to set priorities in the development of the country's public health system. Within a short period of time the mortality in this country has risen 1.5 times, and the birth rate have declined twice. By January 1, 2005, the population of Russian Federation had decreased by 10,361,300 people, as a result of natural depopulation. Mostly affected by the crisis is able-bodied population, the mortality among who have increased 2.5 times. The gap in the mortality between ours and other economically developed countries is now sevenfold. This means that six out of seven cases of death at the productive age in this country are absolutely preventable. The mortality among pensioners has not changed at all, i.e. people at this age seem to be reliably protected against the crisis. The birth rate has decreased abruptly; its summary coefficient has fallen down to 1.17 while 2.15 are necessary for simple reproduction. The proportion of out-of-wedlock children, as well as that of disabled children, displays a multiple increase. Male population in Russia demonstrates a catastrophic super mortality, the gap between the length of life among men and women being 13.5 years. In a number of regions men do not reach the age of 54.

[Mortality of able-bodied population in Saratov oblast and measures of its decreasing].

On the basis of analysis of health status of able-bodied population in Saratov oblast measures of enhancing health promotion of this population group are validated.

[Self-destructive behavior of adolescents as menace to nation health and country defense capacity].

Issues of adolescents behavior related to disposition to drug addiction, alcoholism and other self-destructing habits are considered. Preventive measures designed for youths of military age are set out.

[Population health in some of the Northern regions]. / Zdorov'e naseleniia riada sevenykh regionov.

The conditions and dynamic changes of the most important indices related with population health in a number of Northern regions of the Russian Federation are under discussion. A conclusion is made that they are predetermined by migration processes, latitude effects and peculiarities of production activity.

[The dynamic rate of morbidity among the residents in a number of Russia's northern regions]. / Uroven' i dinamika zabolevaemosti naseleniia riada severnykh regionov Rossiiskoi Federatsii.

Discussed in the paper are the peculiarities related with the morbidity observed in a number of Russia's northern regions; a conclusion is made on that it is necessary to take account of the above specific features while rendering the medical care.

[Prognostic evaluations of the medical and demographic processes]. / Prognoznye otsenki mediko-demograficheskikh protsessov.

The medical-and-demographic processes as a starting point for the planning of means and resources for the short- and average-term future are forecasted in the paper on the basis of long-term peculiarities of the natural-science data and with respect for the social-and-economic crisis now underway in the country.

[Contemporary issues of medical care quality]. / Sovremennye problemy kachestva meditsinskoi pomoshchi.

Modern approaches towards managing the medical care quality through influencing the components of medical care provision, such as licensing, accreditation, therapeutic-process standards, and satisfaction of patients with the received medical care, are analyzed in the article.

[Topical issues of the primary medical and sanitary care]. / Aktual'nye problemy pervichnoi mediko-sanitarnoi pomoshchi.

Issues related with transforming the functioning of the country's health care on the basis of the model of general practitioner (GP) are discussed in the article. It is concluded that there is need in a full-scale preparatory activity comprising both the optimization of the internal structural-and-functional relations and the ensuring of the health care readiness as whole, i.e. evolving the activity of its elements in the direction of an integrally functioning system.

[Current issues in health management]. / Aktual'nye voprosy upravleniia zdravookhraneniem.

The article deals with approaches towards creating a self- regulating system of medical insurance based on the mutually balanced financial interests of all sides involved into the process of providing and receiving the medical care, i.e. an individually-insured person, employer, health-care institution and local municipal authorities.

[Current problems of coordination and interaction in public health management]. / Sovremennye problemy koordinirovaniia i vzaimodeistviia v upravlenii zdravookhraneniem.

Coordination and interaction in public health management are analyzed. It is concluded that it is necessary to develop an effective interdepartmental coordination system regulated by federal legal and normative order documents.

[Migration and formation of medical-demographic processes]. / Migratsiia i formirovanie mediko-demograficheskikh protsessov.

The paper presents the results of a study into the impact of migration, including rotational one on the formation of medicodemographic processes, such as composition and natural movement of the population, general and age-standardized causes of death.

[Formation of medical-demographic processes in the Russian Federation]. / Formirovanie mediko-demograficheskikh protsessov v Rossiiskoi Federatsii.

The authors analyze the specific features of the present medical and demographic situation in the Russian Federation, the naturally research regularities determining the evolution and development direction of population processes in the 20th century by using the populational advance to the demographic transition to the present-day reproduction as an example. Socioeconomic factors affecting the demographic structure of society are considered.

[Preterm mortality and possibility for its prevention]. / Prezhdevremennaia smertnosts' i ee predotvratimost'.

The need in fundamental socio-hygienic studies aimed at solving the problem of preterm death prevention is validated. The attention is focussed on the health status of capable population of Russia and prevention of deaths caused by social economic crisis.

[Main trends of the population health in Russia under present-day conditions]. / Osnovnye tendentsii zdorov'ia naseleniia Rossii v sovremennykh usloviiakh.

Decreased utilization of medical services by the population, primarily by economically active part of the population, under conditions of socioeconomic crisis is discussed as exemplified by outpatient and inpatient care and temporary invalidity. The direct result of decreased consultation rate is an essential part of diseases and abnormalities which are no longer registered in medical files and remain untreated, which eventually leads to development of chronic, combined, multiple diseases, primary disability, and untimely deaths.