title: [Dynamics of the flow of Soviet scientific documents in social hygiene and public health organization].
abstract: In order to study the rates of accumulating new information on selected trends in social hygiene and public health organisation and in this branch of science as a whole, to explore the possibility of prognostic estimate of research efforts distribution, the dynamics of national documentation flows in this branch was analysed in 1975-1976 (959 publications), 1980-1981 (1740 publication) and 1985-1986 (2353 publications). A total of 5052 documents was studied. The study revealed that a quantitative analysis of research documentation flows reflects the intensity of accumulating the information. During last 10 years a rapid increase in the flow of publications on the problems of public health organisation was noted along with its slow progress regarding the problems of population health. The knowledge of the dynamics of documentation flow permitted to understand the nature of its further development only on the basis of large--scale major trends of the research and of the branch as a whole. It would be impossible to make similar estimations on the basis of selected specific cases of research without additional information.
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Rytvinskiĭ
mesh_terms: D004282:Documentation; D011635:Public Health Administration; D012106:Research; D012936:Social Medicine; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D014586:USSR
vernacular_title: Dinamika potokov otechestvennykh nauchnykh dokumentov po sotsial'noĭ gigiene i organizatsii zdravookhraneniia.