title: [THE EVALUATION OF RESPONSIBILITY CITIZEN FOR ONE'S OWN HEALTH FROM THE POSITIONS OF MEDICAL WORKERS].
abstract: The article demonstrates necessity of implementing principle of solidary responsibility of citizenfore one's own health with purpose of health promotion and development of health care in country and all over the world. The analysis of national and international literature proved that human health in many ways depends on life style. Nowadays, population places the responsibility for one's own health to state, employers and medical personnel. The article presents main results of anonymous questionnaire survey carried out among 723 workers of municipal polyclinics. The software Statisitka was applied to determine relative frequency of occurrence of characteristic in different groups (percentage) and confidence range. The comparative analysis according the Student criterion was applied among physicians and paramedical personnel. The purpose of survey was to evaluate degree of responsibility of population for one's own health from point of view of medical personnel. It is established that 69.5% of physicians and 79.6% of paramedical personnel consider their patients responsible for implementation of prescribed recommendations. The opposite point of view have 30.5% of physicians and 20.4% of paramedical personnel. According opinion of 42.9% Of physicians and 48.9% of paramedical personnel human age has no impact on degree of one's own health caring. The physicians of polyclinics evaluate responsibility of citizenfor one's own health quite low. So, only 11. 6% of physicians and 28.6% of paramedical personnel of polyclinics provide positive reply to the asked question. The majority of physicians (37.4%) and medical nurses (34.2%) are convinced that to increase responsibility for one's own health the activities infield of health education are to be implemented. The application of the mechanism of co-payments for medical services is supported by 34.6% of physicians and 27.4% of medical nurses. The given question caused difficulties with answer among 20.2% of physicians and 32.2% of medical nurses.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Dauletkalieva
authors.forename: D B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Kulov
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D012426:Russia