[Higher medical schools and medical institutions: feedback problems]. / Vuz i meditsinskie uchrezhdeniia: voprosy obratnoi sviazi.

Sociological study of graduates from Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy was carried out in 1997. The opinions of 199 physicians on the quality of training at the Academy, on employment and continuous education, etc., are analyzed. Proposals on improving the quality of staff training from a practitioners' viewpoint are collected and classified.

[Self-evaluation by workers of health status and its relation to the life style]. / Samootsenka rabotaiushchimi na promyshlennom predpriatii sostoiania zdorov'ia i ego sviazi s obrazom zhizni.

The article provides an analysis of lifestyle factors among industrial workers in connection with their self-assessment of health status. The diet, physical activity, harmful habits, ethico-psychological atmosphere in the family has been assessed. The survey made it possible to detect certain regularities. Such self-assessments of health status as "poor" and "satisfactory" predominated among persons who had a low level of physical activity, irregular meals, smoke or systematically consume alcohol as compared to those conducting healthy lifestyle.