Bulletin of RSMU

ISSN Print 2500–1094 ISSN Online 2542–1204

BIOMEDICAL JOURNAL OF PIROGOV UNIVERSITY (MOSCOW, RUSSIA)

The study of the effect on the health of the level of purchasing power of the population, air pollution and health care in three cities of the Kursk region with various kinds of industrial production — Kursk, Zheleznogorsk and Lgov — was conducted.

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Shafirkin AV, Shtemberg AS

The model for quantifying health risks of long anthropogenic impacts of high intensity on a human being, as well as a long-term social stress and psycho-emotional tension in the society was presented. The model describes the time-relative decrease in the volume of compensatory reserves of the organism, its adaptive capacity, increase probability of regulation disorders and mortality as a final. These changes deteriorate the health status at the population level. In the article statistical data on the changes in the rates of morbidity, mortality and the life expectancy of people from different Russian regions during the period of 1970–2011 were analyzed. The data on the character of changes in the population health in Russia and other countries depending on the income level and the degree of social and psycho-emotional stresses was discussed.

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Dykovich MP, Rukavishnikov VS

Objective and subjective components of health-related quality of life of organized (students and police officers) and unorganized working population in Eastern Siberia under chronic social stress have been considered. SF-36 and social well-being questionnaires were used. Deficiency of biomedical potential and cognitive component of decision-making as a mental resource for overcoming chronic social stress, the presence of intrapersonal conflicts and impaired social behavior, low levels of health and functional capacity of the cardiovascular system, a wide range of functional disorders were identified. There was shown the decrease of individual social well-being and health-related quality. The conclusion about the need for effective government intervention to break formed by chronic social stress «the cycle of social disadvantage» was done.

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Velichkovsky BM, Dergustanova TM

The impact of income inequality on public health was under study. It was found the relationship between the criminal situation and income inequality of population (the value of the decile coefficient) in sub-federal units of the Russian Federation. There were compared the effects of the value of the decile coefficient and the purchasing power on population mortality rates.

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Guskova AK

Medical-demographic studies of the RAMS academician B. T. Velichkovskiy are of great importance for elucidation and ranking of the effects produced by the environmental factors including radiation and living conditions on the health of population. They reveal the potential way to make more efficacious both prophylaxis and social security instruments.

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Ryazanova EA, Lebedeva-Nesevrya NA

The results of the survey aimed at the analysis of practices of alcohol consumption by industrial workers of Perm region are presented in the article. The method of the survey was a dispensing questionnaire in a workplace. It was found an overall high level of consumption by the workers of soft drinks, particularly beer. It was determined that more typical for certain social groups was a regular consumption of hard liquor. Using cluster analysis there were identified four types of alcohol consumers. To the risk group (the type of "alcohol abusing") there were assigned the men under the age of 46.

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Zakroeva AG, Lesnyak OM, Andriyanova OV

In a comparative population-based cross-sectional representative sampling study there was revealed that the prevalence of chronic noncommunicable diseases, regardless of living in the countryside or in the city is associated with a more than two-fold increase of the level of anxiety and depression. The reduction of arterial hypertension, angina pectoris, anxiety and depression prevalence associated with progressive increase of respondents' financial and educational level were specific only for the urban population. These data can be a basis for the development of the targeted integrated prevention programs.

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Zelionko AV

The purpose of the study is the assessment of medical awareness, as well as justification of measures of increasing medical and social activity of the urban population. The study included 730 people from St. Petersburg who were divided into 3 groups according to the level of medical awareness (high, average, low). This research was carried out by a method of questioning with the help of specially designed program. The higher level was found in women in the age group of 30–49 years and among the citizens with high education. People with a high level had more favorable characteristics of social-hygienic functioning. It was found higher morbidity in the group of citizens with low level. Women, people of the older age groups with high education and a high level of medical awareness more actively use medical and health services. It was found the effect of the level of medical awareness on morbidity of the population, and the level of medical and social activity of the urban population.

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