title: Protecting the reproductive health of the family.
abstract: Problems of ecology do not affect nations individually. Similarly, scientists must participate in seeking solutions to ecologic problems regardless of State borders. The sophistication of certain demographic indices, primarily those of infant and maternal mortality and of population reproduction, is a barometer of a nation's socioeconomic status and the quality of medical care. Solutions to practical problems in the field of public health are based on scientific research conducted on various problems. A task of urgent priority in Russia is to solve the problems of maintaining health, particularly reproductive, and preventing health disorders. It is the generation of the 1980s and 1990s that faces the basic difficulties of reestablishing the Russian State. We offer for our colleagues' discussion the basic directions of scientific research planned in the Russian Federation to find points of contact with respect to this problem within the framework of possible cooperation.
authors.affiliation: Center for Medicoecological Problems of Protecting the Reproductive Health of the Family, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow.
authors.forename: O V
authors.initials: OV
authors.lastname: Sivochalova
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Kozhin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016272:Occupational Health; D011247:Pregnancy; D012098:Reproduction / Q000187:drug effects; D012426:Russia; D013223:Statistics as Topic