title: [Effectiveness of social hygiene and organized preventive measures in dysentery in preschool institutions].
abstract: The work presents the data on the development and realization of the complex of social and hygienic, as well as organizational and preventive measures for dysentery control at institutions for children of preschool age in one of the regions of our country. This complex comprises the improvement of "epidemiological" knowledge of the staff, preventive orientation in the work of the epidemiological section of the local Sanitary Epidemiological Station, the spread of sanitary and hygienic knowledge children and in their families, the improvement of material and technical equipment of children's institutions. The complex proved to be highly effective: at institutions for children of preschool age morbidity -ate in dysentery decrease 4--5 times, and its specific falue dropped from 40% to 5.4%, the frequency of positive results given by tests for the presence of intestinal microflora in washings from various objects decreased more than 25 times. Morbidity rate at institutions for children of preschool age decreased 4--5 times as compared with that among children not attending such institutions. The above data suggest the necessity of introducing this experience in other regions of our country.
mesh_terms: D002662:Child Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000517:prevention & control; D004403:Dysentery / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D012426:Russia; D014505:Urban Population
vernacular_title: Effektivnost' sotsial'no-gigienicheskikh i organizatsionno-profi-lakticheskikh meropriiatiĭ pri dizenterii v detskikh doshkol'nykh uchrezhdeniiakh.