Children of the Arctic: dynamics of medico-demographic indicators

Abstract

Maintaining and improving the health of the population, especially children and teenagers, is one of the most important state task, the solution of which allows to ensure the availability of human resources, the country's defense and reproduction of the healthy population. Currently in the Russian Federation, there are negative trends in the health status of children in all age categories: the growing incidence, prevalence of chronic diseases, the presence of morphological abnormalities, high prevalence of risk factors among children, a decrease of quality indicators of children's health. There is a significant change in the pattern of morbidity in childhood, reflected in the increase in the number of chronic and combined forms of disease, the increase in the frequency of intrapartum damage and hereditary pathology, which in turn leads to an increase in the number of children with disabilities. The issues of improving medical care in remote and inaccessible localities are actively discussed on all platforms and meetings of the circumpolar countries of the Union. It is clear that much of the health of the population in the Arctic is determined by the welfare of the country. However, some progress in this direction in recent years and our country. In this regard, it is highly important to assess the dynamics of medico-demographic indicators in the Arctic regions during the implementation of major Russian programs in the field of protection of motherhood and childhood in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

Evolution of the Structure of Children's Morbidity Rate in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

“…The impact of extreme climatogeographic and socioeconomic features in the North is reflected in the unfavorable dynamic changes in the health of the younger generation. (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6) The indicators of the overall incidence among children in the regions of the Far North for some classes of diseases exceed the average federal level by approximately 1.5-2 times. (1,3) The aim of this study was to analyze the data of official medical statistics on morbidity among the child population in dynamics from 2000 to 2016 and to present the evolution of the children's incidence structure in RS(Y), according to ICD-10.…”