[Infant morbidity in rural regions of the southern Ukraine].
In the Southern medical-and-demographic region of Ukraine a comprehensive medical-and-social survey was carried out of infant case rate together with factors for it. Overall 1945 children under one year of age (with 1080 having been the main group, 865 the group of comparison) from 8 rural districts of the Odessa region were followed up. The key items of the survey program included analysis of the level and patterns of infant morbidity by data on the rate of applying for medical advice, by findings from medical examinations, case follow-ups, medical admissions, expert medical evaluation of the diagnostic summing-ups, ascertaining dominating tendencies in the nineties. The results secured enabled us to identify risk-factors, with reserves for the infant case rate reduction having been found together with ways for realization thereof within the system of a staged family prophylactic management.
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D002662:Child Health Services; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009017:Morbidity / Q000639:trends; D012423:Rural Health / Q000639:trends*; D019035:Rural Health Services; D012424:Rural Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014455:Ukraine / Q000453:epidemiology