title: [Sociohygienic monitoring in the Russian Federation: problems and tasks].
abstract: The State sociohygienic monitoring (SHM) system is one of the most important mechanisms of providing sanitary-and-epidemiological well-being in the population. The March 30, 1999 Federal Law on Sanitary-and-Epidemiological Well-being of the Population" refers SHM to as one of the mechanisms of state regulation in this field and defines as a state system for monitoring the population's health and the environment, for analyzing, evaluating, and predicting them, and for revealing cause-and-effect relations between the population's health status and the influence of environmental factors. Much work has been recently done to establish and manage a federal information fund (FIF) that is a database on the human health status and environment, based on long-term observations and an aggregate of normative legal acts and reference materials on the analysis of prediction and determination of cause-and-effect relations between the human health status and the influence of environmental factors. FIF obtains information from a great many sources, including databases of state executive authorities. This information is open and available to the institutions and organizations involved in the establishment of FIF. The elaboration and introduction of new, more informative indices for SHM management at the present stage are one of the urgent tasks. In accordance with the May 28, 2000 decision of the Board of the Ministry of Health of Russia, with the 2003-2004 regulatory documents of the Ministry of Health of Russia, much work to improve the list of SHM indices has been under way. The draft list of SHM indices is harmonized with the indices of the European SHN information system, with the list of social diseases, approved by the Russian Federation's Government Regulation No. 715 dated December 1, 2004, and the list of national security threat indices (A 21-2162 dated August 29, 2003). The draft list has been considered by the specialists of the Federal Service for Surveillance of Consumers' Rights Protection and Human Well-being; comments have been taken into account. The draft is under reconsideration and will require approval in the near future.
authors.forename: G G
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Onishchenko
mesh_terms: D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000592:standards*; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D006920:Hygiene / Q000592:standards*; D012426:Russia