Trends in mental health of residents in a big agricultural-industrial region
Treshutin, V.A.; Goldobina, O.A.; Shchepin, V.O.
Problemy Sotsial'noi Gigieny Zdravookhraneniia i Istorii Meditsiny 2003(4): 11-17
2003
ISSN/ISBN: 0869-866X PMID: 14513492 Document Number: 554647
The dynamics of mental health of the population of the Altai Territory evaluated within a ten-year study (1991-2000) revealed pronounced negative processes with the most essential ones being in the children and teenagers category. The complicated social-and-economic transformations conducted in Russian society during the last decade of the past century, which entailed the misadjusted response in a majority of population, exerted an unfavorable influence on the mental health condition. The authors suggested a system of measures and arrangements targeted at neutralizing the detected negative trends in the population mental health; the above system can be successfully used in any country's region.