title: [Epidemiology of tuberculosis in the RSFSR at present].
abstract: The epidemiological situation in regard to tuberculosis in the RSFSR is permanently improving. The incidence of tuberculosis in the Republic in 1971-1987 decreased by 40 per cent and in 1987 amounted to 42.4 per 100,000 residents. The pace of the decrease in the tuberculosis incidence and rate in the 1980s markedly slackened. This was connected with better organization of prophylactic examination of the population, much lower incidence of tuberculosis in children and increased migration which promoted leveling of the tuberculosis incidence and rate in various regions of the Republic. A change in the social structure of the patients in the direction of increasing the number of socially unadjusted elements also promoted the disease. Several basic groups of the risk factors defining the level of the tuberculosis incidence were indicated.
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Kucherov
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012307:Risk Factors; D012426:Russia; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control
vernacular_title: Epidemiologiia tuberkuleza v RSFSR na sovremennom étape.