[Biologically active food additives: their role in human body sanitation and in prophylaxis of alimentary-dependent diseases]. / Rol' biologicheski aktivnykh pishchevykh dobavok v ozdorovlenii organizma cheloveka i profilaktike alimentarno-obuslovennykh boleznei.

The different aspects of the problem of health maintaining and strengthening are discussed. The special attention is devoted to the problem of diet that at present is characterized by deficiency of macro- and micronutrients. It is supposed that this factor together with the change in ecological condition promotes the development of different somatic diseases and their atypical course. To correct the dietary regimen, to strengthen the body functional reserves and to improve its nonspecific resistance to the influence of environmental unfavorable and pathogenic factors the possibility of wide use of biologically active food additives (BAA) is discussed. The examples of BAAs based on plant materials and results of their use in health resort conditions are given.

[Halotherapy in the combined treatment of chronic bronchitis patients]. / Galoterapiia v kompleksnom lechenii bol'nykh khronicheskim bronkhitom.

Halotherapy proved to be a highly effective method in a complex sanatorium treatment of patients with chronic bronchitis. Its use promotes more rapid liquidation of clinical manifestations of disease, improves indices of vent function of lungs, especially those values that characterize bronchial conduction (volume of forced exhalations per second, index Tiffno), increases tolerance to physical load, normalizes indices of reduced immunity and leads to increasing the effectiveness of patient treatment in sanatorium.

[Marketing and the distribution of passes to health resorts of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation]. / Marketing i realizatsiia putevok v zdravnitsy Ministerstva oborony Rossiiskoi Federatsii.

Social and economic reforms in Russia have resulted in the appearance of the recreation services market. To coordinate its activities with orientation to consumers the Department of vouchers' distribution and realisation was set up in February 1998 in scientific methodology center in Marfino Central Military Clinical Sanatorium. The article deals with the Department's attempts to introduce principles of the market economy into the work practice of the military health resorts and sanatoria.