ABSTRACT
The authors present new methodologic approaches to analysis of the efficacy of maternity and childhood protection: reproductive loss, fetal and neonatal mortality comprising stillborns and infants dead before the age of 1 year, coefficient of late to early infant mortality, and population working potential loss. The said indexes were calculated for four territories of the Russian Federation. The results demonstrate a high share of induced abortions (the mean value 65%) among the causes of reproductive loss. A high share of perinatal loss (feto-neonatal mortality) necessitates increase of resources allotted to perinatal technology to 70%, this value being associated with working potential loss: 11.9 thousand man-years among men and 9.0 thousand man-years among women.