Morbidity of the population living in area of Amur-Yakutsk Mainline

Abstract

The article presents the results of analysis of morbidity of the population living in the area of the Amur-Yakutsk Mainline in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in 2003-2013. The structure of morbidity of the population living in the studied territories has similar picture with the one of the population of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in whole. The diseases were included in four clusters; the most relevant (share in the amount of disease and level morbidity per 100 thousand population) are respiratory diseases (cluster I), injuries and poisoning (cluster II). Levels of disease different from those of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia): in most cases (10 classes of diseases) morbidity is lower and only for infectious diseases and neoplasms levels of morbidity were higher than the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Studied area is characterized by higher mortality of the population than in the republic (10,4 ± 0,2 %o и 9,7 ± 0,1 %). The indicator of the disability is at the level of the one in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) (5,7 ± 0,5 %).

Keywords

• morbidity of the population
• classes of diseases
• cluster analysis
• mortality and disability indicators