Loss of children’s health and ways their reduction in modern conditions (on materials of the Samara region)

The article presents the results of calculating the loss of health life - Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALY), based on the results obtained from medical and statistical study (number of cases of disease, disability), the analysis of medical records (age establishment of illness, disability). As a result, the number of person-years of life was obtained with the correction on the vital activity limitation due to health problems. Index is the sum of the potential lost of years of life. In its turn this was considered in the development of priority directions of perfection obstetric and pediatric care in the conditions of its reorganization and modernization on the basis of the method Foresight roadmap. As part of the “road map” structural transformation of the system of primary health care, specialized health and social care for mothers and children in the Samara region were proposed.

children's population, loss of health, prevention