Acta Biomedica Scientifica (May 2013)

SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS AS THE PROBLEM OF DEMOGRAPHIC DEVELOPMENT OF SIBERIAN FEDERAL DISTRICT

  • V. V. Zakharenkov,
  • I. V. Viblaya,
  • E. A. Zabrodina

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 0, no. 3(1)
pp. 16 – 18

Abstract

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In the article the negative medico-demographic and social and economic value of consequences of sexually transmitted infections is indicated that causes their inclusion in the list of socially significant diseases which constitute danger to people around. It is specified that complications of sexually transmitted infections lead to formation of congenital diseases, break reproductive function of younger generation, negatively affect birth rate indicators, worsen a demographic situation, aggravating depopulation processes in Russia and its territorial units. The most significant in this respect is the disease of syphilis. The dynamic assessment of the incidence rate of syphilis in the Russian Federation, the Siberian Federal District and the Kemerovo Region in the period from 2006 to 2011 shows that as a whole across Russia incidence of syphilis in the last 5years has a tendency to decrease, in different degree expressed in the territorial units. Less favorable trends in the dynamics of syphilis in the Kemerovo Region in comparison with the Siberian Federal District and the Russian Federation are revealed. Namely, if during the period from 2006 to 2008, the differences between the indices of the Kemerovo Region and the Siberian Federal District held at the level of 7%; while in 2009 the difference increased to 12%, and in 2011 reached 25% (not in favor of the Kemerovo region). So, in 2011 indicator level in the Kemerovo region was 2.36 times higher than in the Russian Federation as a whole. Taking into account the emphasized medico-demographic importance of sexually transmitted infections and the expressed distinctions in the values of analyzed indicators, it is shown that the Kemerovo Region is the priority territory for the development of measures aimed at reducing the incidence of syphilis in the spectrum of approaches to improve the demographic policy Siberian Federal District.

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