Acta Biomedica Scientifica (May 2013)
Health state, lifestyle and trends of forming the medical-demographic population potential of teenager and youth age in Siberia (on example of Irkutsk region)
Abstract
The results of long standing investigations on studying the features of forming the main indices characterizing the losses of the demographic potential in the contingents of teenagers and young people of Irkutsk Region during 1990-2000th are presented in this paper. The index of general morbidity among the teenagers was found to increase 2,8 times for the period of this study: the prevalence indices of the endocrine system, the pathology of the urogenital system, the digestion organs as well as the parasitic and infectious diseases were found to increase in the highest degree. Among the girls of 15-17 years old the prevalence index of the inflammatory diseases of the female pelvic organs increased more than 20 times; the disorder frequency of the menstrual cycle - 9,1. In studying the lifestyle in the young people a number of the factors which may exert the negative influence on their health state (the early beginning of sexual life, smoking and alcohol consumption) has been revealed. The structural-quantitative invalidity features among the children and teenagers were revealed: the index of common invalidity increased 1,8 times among the boys and 1,9 times among the girls in the age groups of 10-14 years old; 1,4 times among the boys and 1,3 times among the girls in the age group of 15-17 years old; the indices of common invalidity were found to be higher in the boys than in the girls; the main pathology which may stipulate the invalidization may be associated with the psychical disorders and the behavior disorders, the diseases of the nervous system and the inborn anomalies. The rate of common mortality was found to be higher than the average Russian level among the youths and girls. The main proportion of the irrevocable losses of the teenagers is stipulated by the external causes of death: the mortality rate among the youths and girls was stipulated by such causes as suicides and murders in 78,6 % and 62,2 % of cases in 2010. The analysis of the value - motivation aspects of reproductive behavior among the students has shown that the largest proportion of the students were oriented to forming the families with few children in the future. These factors are characterized by the society states such as anomia which may stipulate the desocialization of the teenagers and young people which may on later form the deviant behavior and the health-destroying lifestyle.
