[The problems and perspectives of schoolchildren's health promotion at the municipal level].

The paper gives the results of studies aimed at evaluating the efficiency of the interdepartmental interaction system in schoolchildren's health promotion at the municipal level and at substantiating the recommendations for its optimization in case of the Leninsky District (Yekaterinburg). A package of measures, such as to develop the network of health-promotion schools, to assist in introducing effective health-saving technologies, to upgrade the personnel's competence in health culture, and to develop monitoring systems is proposed.

[Epidemiology of bronchial asthma in a large industrial region]. / Epidemiologiia bronkhial'noi astmy v krupnom promyshlennom regione.

AIM: To estimate the prevalence of bronchial asthma (BA) basing on the complex of the disease symptoms within the last year associated with bronchial obstruction (BO) and bronchial hyperreactivity (BHR). MATERIALS AND METHODS: A questionnaire survey (IUATLD) has covered 1572 individuals (mean age 40.1 +/- 0.3 years, 837 females). The responders were divided into 3 age groups. BO and BHR were examined, concentration of air pollutants NO2, SO2, CO were measured. RESULTS: The most typical BA symptoms were defined in males and females in different age groups. The relationship between frequency of BA symptoms on concentration of air pollutants was determined. BO and BHR were found in 13.3% of the respondents. CONCLUSION: Prevalence of BA in a large industrial region is 16.4% (17.5% in males and 14.0% in females).

A cross-cultural analysis of avoidance (relative to approach) personal goals.

The results from this research supported our primary hypothesis that the adoption of avoidance (relative to approach) personal goals varies as a function of individualism-collectivism (across representations of this distinction). Interdependent self-construals were positively related and independent self-construals were negatively related to adoption of avoidance goals (Study 1), Asian Americans adopted more avoidance goals than non-Asian Americans (Study 2), andpersonsfrom South Korea and Russia adopted more avoidance goals than those in the United States (Studies 3 and 4, respectively). Studies 3 and 4 investigated andfound supportfor our secondary hypothesis that avoidance personal goals are a negative predictor of subjective well-being in individualistic (the United States), but not collectivistic (South Korea and Russia), countries. The findings are discussed in terms of other approach-avoidance constructs and motivational processes.