Socioeconomic situation and population's health in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania in the nineties
Shchepin, V.O.; Demurov, T.M.
Problemy Sotsial'noi Gigieny Zdravookhraneniia i Istorii Meditsiny 2: 31-34
2001
ISSN/ISBN: 0869-866X PMID: 11515131 Document Number: 536831
The economic situation for the population of North Ossetia-Alania has drastically deteriorated in the 90s, which primarily affected the population well-being. Birth rates decreased and mortality increased, because of increased number of suicides and murders and decrease of mean expected life-span. Results of analysis indicate common regularities and trends and differences between the medical demographic processes in North Ossetia-Alania and the entire Russian Federation; these common and individual features should be taken into consideration when organizing and planning the activity of public health system and institutions.