[Substantiation and search of health indicators for military servicemen and civil population].

Health authorities and executives of medical organisations focused on improvement of quality index and access to health care in the process of realisation of the state policy of the Russian Federation in the healthcare field. But the figures currently used and recorded on the official statistical books don't allow to make an objective evaluation of the health status of the population and therefore to evaluate an effectiveness of medical arrangements. Thereby it is necessary to find new indicators for objective individual and public health evaluation. Performed comparative-analytical study of currently used methods and figures for public health evaluation showed that the integral health indicators obtained by the evaluation of heart rate variability are the most efficient.

[Current state and prospects of military personnel health monitoring].

The current article is dedicated to some features of the Russian Federation Armed Forces military personnel health monitoring such as legal and informational provision, methodological basis of functioning, historical aspect of formation and development of the social and hygienic monitoring in the Russian Federation Armed Forces. The term "military personnel health monitoring" is defined as an analytical system of constant and long-term observation, analysis, assessment, studying of factors determined the military personnel health, these factors correlations, health risk factors management in order to minimize them. The current state of the military personnel health monitoring allows coming to the conclusion that the military health system does have forces and resources for state policy of establishing the population health monitoring system implementation. The following directions of the militarily personnel health monitoring improvement are proposed: the Russian Federation Armed Forces medical service record and report system reorganization bringing it closer to the civilian one, implementation of the integrated approach to the medical service informatisation, namely, military personnel health status and medical service resources monitoring. The leading means in this direction are development and introduction of a military serviceman individual health status monitoring system on the basis of a serviceman electronic medical record card. Also it is proposed the current Russian Federation Armed Forces social and hygienic monitoring improvement at the expense of informational interaction between the two subsystems on the basis of unified military medical service space.

[Licensing of activity of medical subunits of military forces and commands of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation].

The purpose of this article is a synthesis and analysis of laws and regulations on the licensing of medical activities, the study of the current state and problems of licensing of medical units and the development of recommendations for medical directors in conducting the work associated with the licensing of medical activities of medical units of military units and formations of the military districts.

[The nature of respiratory organ pathology in servicemen under the conditions in Afghanistan]. / Kharakter patologii organov dykhaniia u voennosluzhashchikh v usloviiakh Afganistana.

The article studies the characteristic features in outcome of acute respiratory diseases, acute pneumonias and typhoid diseases in Afghanistan. Generally, acute pneumonias had a more severe form of its course. The authors stress a considerable similarity between acute pneumonias and ARD on the one hand and typhoid on the other hand, thus giving its differential features.

[The characteristics of the course of diseases with a therapeutic profile]. / Osobennosti techeniia zabolevanii terapevticheskogo profilia.

Medical losses owing to common diseases during the war in Afghanistan were several times greater than medical losses in wounded. It happened due to a high level of infectious morbidity (hepatitis A, typhoid diseases, dysentery, amebiasis and malaria). Generally, this kind of morbidity in itself was not very high and was comparatively equal to the period of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. Officers more frequently had diseases of digestive or respiratory systems, and enlisted men--of respiratory and digestive systems.