[The practice of self-preserving behavior of the citizen of the Russian Federation: the results of the All-Russian sociological study "The demographic self-feeling of Russia"].

One of world trends in health care social policy is self-care behavior of population as willingness of every member of society to be personally liable for maintaining one's own health and prolongation of life activity. The value of health is considered as both human, personally significant and social capital, that is a must to achieve high indices of social development and to ensure national state security. The measures of state policy of the Russian Federation are targeted to develop culture of self-care behavior of citizen of the Russian Federation that is reflected in such national projects «Health care¼ and «Demography¼ that are implemented until 2024. To assess self-care behavior, it is necessary: to determine the need for longevity and degree of its implementation in various socio-demographic groups; to assess specifics of self-care behavior in context of motives of achieving longevity; to determine feedback in various socio-demographic groups to demographic policy measures to preserve population health and to reduce mortality; to analyze popular practices of self-care behavior. The article presents results of sociological survey on subject of «demographic self-feeling of Russia¼ carried out by the Institute of Social Political Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2020-2021, in terms of application of various practices of self-care behavior in Russia.

[Chemotherapy for malignant tumors: problems and prospects].

This article is about the possibilities of increasing effectiveness and reducing toxicity in standard chemotherapy for cancer. Three possibilities are described: mechanisms of and overcoming multidrug resistance, selective transportation and drug delivery using vectors and artificial vehicles, and individualization of anticancer therapy.