title: [Increased knowledgeability of the population and physicians on questions of prophylaxis--the basis for programs to prevent the main noninfectious diseases].
abstract: One of the main ways of improving health of the population and increasing the duration of life, especially active life, is the upbringing of habits of a healthy way of life among the population. Interviewing by mail of a representative sample of the population 3670 persons of both sexes aged 20 to 60 in Frunze showed that over one third knew nothing of a possibility of the prevention of cardiovascular and bronchopulmonary diseases and two thirds knew nothing of a possibility of cancer prevention. Physicians were also poorly oriented in the problems of prophylaxis of the main noncommunicable diseases. Enhancing measures to form hygienic habits of a healthy way of life in the population and reorientation of medical workers to enhancing prophylactic measures, particularly primary prevention, was found appropriate.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001982:Bronchial Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control; D004700:Endocrine System Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007707:Kyrgyzstan; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010820:Physicians; D011322:Primary Prevention / Q000193:education*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014505:Urban Population
vernacular_title: Povyshenie osvedomlennosti naseleniia i vracheĭ v voprosakh profilaktiki--osnova programm preduprezhdeniia osnovnykh neinfektsionnykh zabolevaniĭ.