title: [Socio-hygienic characteristics of families from the rural regions of Uzbekistan].
abstract: For the purpose of obtaining a socio-economic characteristic of a rural family a complex survey has been conducted in three regions of the Uzbek Republic covering all families having children of early age. The findings showed that in rural areas of the republic women marry early and the birth spacing in 74-78 percent of women does not exceed 2 years. Rural women deliver babies during the whole period of reproductive age but when they reach the age of 28-30 the birth spacing increases. All rural families tend to have many children and there is no evidence that they might shift to having less children in the nearest years. About 60 percent of rural families have two babies under 3 years of age. Living and socio-economic conditions of most rural families are estimated as poor. Most of these families have many children, their health culture is poor and medical activity slow. Many of these families preserve old, at times negative traditions. The demographic development of a rural family does not correspond to the level of socio-economic development of the rural area. All this contributes to the formation of a slow dynamic lifestyle concentrated on narrow family interests. As a whole an average rural Uzbek family lags behind other such families from industrial regions of the country as far as their cultural and socio-economic development is concerned, and to overcome this backwardness it is necessary to create real conditions for more active involvement of population in different spheres of social and public activities.
authors.forename: U A
authors.initials: UA
authors.lastname: Karimov
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D012423:Rural Health / Q000639:trends*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014610:Uzbekistan
vernacular_title: Sotsial'no-gigienicheskaia kharakteristika sel'skoĭ sem'i v Uzbekistane.