title: [The characteristics of the work of an epidemiological health detachment under war conditions in Afghanistan].
abstract: The article analyses the activities of sanitary-epidemiological detachment of the 40th Army during the period 1985-1987. Its mission execution was conditioned by the character of combat activities of units and subunits, infectivity index among personnel and local population, live-in field environment, and, especially, limitations of water supplies. Planning and execution of antiepidemiological and prophylactic measures were built on flexible and dynamic employment of sanitary-epidemiological establishments and units, non-organic disinfection teams, and physicians-infectionists in the hospitals. The article gives substantiation concerning some possible changes in the organic structure of sanitary-epidemiological establishments that could make its employment more effective in war period or extreme situations.
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Kraĭniĭ
mesh_terms: D000346:Afghanistan; D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000458:organization & administration; D049673:History, 20th Century; D008886:Military Hygiene / Q000458:organization & administration; D014586:USSR; D014857:Warfare
vernacular_title: Osobennposti raboty sanitarno-épidemiologicheskogo otriada v usloviiakh voĭny v Afganistane.