title: [The "natural focal diseases" medical and geographical atlas of Russia as a tool to analyze their incidence in the population].
abstract: The Faculty of Geography, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, is creating a "Natural Focal Diseases" medical and geographical atlas of Russia. The paper considers the possibilities of the atlas to monitor and assess the epidemiological situation of a number of diseases. The atlas allows one to define a spectrum of the most epidemically significant natural focal diseases in Russia, to quantitatively characterize their incidence in the population, and to visualize it in a series of maps, to make a medical geographical analysis of the prevalence of the nosological entities of natural focal diseases in both individual subjects of the Russian Federation and in Russia as a whole. By using tick-borne encephalitis as an example, the authors consider approaches to analyzing the incidence of natural focal infections, by using different types of the maps given in the atlas.
authors: S M
authors: SM
authors: Malkhazova
authors: V A
authors: VA
authors: Mironova
authors: D S
authors: DS
authors: Orlov
authors: N V
authors: NV
authors: Shartova
mesh_terms: D004675:Encephalitis, Tick-Borne / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission; D005843:Geography; D006801:Humans; D011153:Population; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology