[The medical activity of population resident in rural area].
The medical social study was carried out to investigate the degree of the prevalence of medical activity among the inhabitants of rural area. The attitude of the respondents to the preventive medical check-up was determined. The timeliness of having recurrence to medical care, the performing of physician prescriptions, the independent decision-making related to the medical treatment and the degree of awareness of healthy life-style have been explored. The study was organized in the large rural region of Chelyabinsk oblast. The study sampling consisted of 1740 respondents. The lower level of medical activity among rural inhabitants was revealed. The necessity to enhance the organization of medical institutions functioning related to sanitary hygienic education of rural population and to elaborate the medical care organization.
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D001294:Attitude to Health; D006801:Humans; D009819:Office Visits / Q000639:trends*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations / Q000941:ethics*; D012424:Rural Population; D012426:Russia