[Dynamics of the health status of a student family]. / Issledovanie dinamiki sostoianiia zdorov'ia studencheskoi sem'i.

The paper presents a comparative sociohygienic analysis of a student family over 30 years (1970s-1990s). Particular emphasis is laid on the factors of student family formation, reproductive behaviour, health, medical activity, etc. that characterize this social group.

[Social and hygienic conditions of family creation and birth of the first child]. / Sotsial'no-gigienicheskie sozdaniia sem'i i razhdeniia pervogo rebenka.

Discusses the problems of public health reformation using the so-called new social contract, put forward in Russia by J. Rice, heading the ZdravReform program. Based on analysis of the socio-hygienic conditions of family creation and birth of the first child, the authors propose the following assumption: creation of a family and appearance of the first child is one factor occupying a special place within the framework of the new social contract and validate this assumption by the data of their sociomedical research.

[The student family as a social priority in a contemporary society]. / Studencheskaya sem'ya kak sotsial'nyy prioritet v sovremennom obshchestve.

Discusses plans of marriage among students and the problems of student families. Comprehensive sociohygienic study of the health status and communal conditions was carried out among the students of the Russian Peoples' Friendship University, including married students with children. This social group is characterized by a peculiar life style, intensive intellectual and social activity; moreover, it is the most favorable period for marriage and childbirth. Special attention is paid to difficulties (material, communal, educational, etc.) experienced by the female students becoming mothers in the course of studies. Specific medicodemographic tendencies brought the authors to a conclusion that development and introduction of programs of medicosocial support for student families, specifically, mothers, is needed, which should be aimed at the soonest possible solution of the acute problems of maintaining the health of mothers and their children.

[An analysis of a program of sociomedical assessment of the family as a health unit and as a patient of the services of primary health and hygiene care]. / Analiz programmy mediko-sotsial'noi otsenki sem'i kak edinitsy zdorov'ia i patsienta sluzhb pervichnoi mediko-sanitarnoi pomoshchi.

The authors for the first time present a program of medicosocial characteristics of a family as a patient of primary health care system and of a general practitioner/family doctor. It is a complex program consisting of seven blocks, including the problems of family methodology, socio-demographic, socio-hygienic, material and economic, biomedical, and psychosocial characteristics of a family, and medical and social care of a family. The program is assessed from the methodological, training, and practical view-points. The authors propose a definition of family medicine as a part of the system of knowledge about the regularities of family health and the fundamentals of medicosocial care of a family. They consider the program of medicosocial assessment of family health a priority in the training of physicians and creation of a family medicine system and the theory of family health.

[Health and life style of families among various social groups of the population with young children]. / Zdorov'ye i obraz zhizni semey razlichnykh sotsial'nykh grupp naseleniya, imeyushchikh detey rannego vozrasta.

Presents the results of a sociohygienic study of the health status, life style and conditions of 900 families belonging to different social groups (workers, employees, and mixed) with young children. The principal risk factors for children's health are chronic diseases and adverse occupational factors of their parents, poor microclimate in the family, and poor education of their mothers. Medicosocial requirements of workers' families are a priority problem.

[Social-hygienic problems of family in the Extreme North]. / Sotsial'no-gigienicheskie problemy sem'i v usloviiakh Krainego Severa.

Comprehensive socio-hygienic study of the health status and communal conditions carried out in the families in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) which is characterized by specific economic and geographic features, uneven density of population in various regions, and peculiar medico-demographic tendencies brought the authors to a conclusion that a staged approach is needed to transfer to the family doctor organization of therapeutic and prophylactic care of the population.

[Contemporary social medical problems of the family and issues in medical-social services]. / Sovremennye sotsial'no-gigienicheskie problemy semii i zadachi mediko-sotsial'nykh sluzhb.

Basing on her experience gained in comprehensive sociohygienic studies, the author analyzes present-day medicosocial programs of family health promotion. Theoretical conclusions are confirmed by findings of special sociohygienic studies. The priority problem of today is, to the author's mind, deterioration of the demographic situation caused by reduced reproductive function of a family, deterioration of the health status of mothers and their children resulting from inadequate performance of the medical function by the family, a higher number of induced abortions and divorces, etc. Among approaches to solution of the named problem are improvement of medical education of family members, promotion of the family principle in public health, development of social service, etc.

[Toxicology and hygienic standardization of the new insecticide neopinamine]. / Toksikologiia i gigienicheskoe normirovanie novogo insektitsida neopinamina.

Proceeding from the experimental study of neopinamine insecticide toxicity its hygienic standardization was carried out. Since neopinamine had moderate toxicity under its acute and chronic effect and different routes of body intake, its accumulation was absent and its impact was selective in the occurrence of aftereffects, this preparation was attributed to the third class of danger. Neopinamine MAC in the workplace air was recommended at the level of 5 mg/m3.