Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Moscow, Russia
During the period of 1992—2000 the incidence of general pathology among the population of the Russian Federation was established to increase: from 97,471.2 to 118,822.7 per 100,000 of the population for adults; from 96,471.9 to 151,141.0 of the population for adolescents; from 129,219.9 to 182,984.5 of the population for children. Simultaneously with the growth of general somatic pathology during this period a decrease in the quality of reproductive health among males was noted, which was manifested by a sharp rise in the morbidity of prostate diseases from 481.1 to 1,173.0 as well as by the growth in male sterility from 32.1 to 44.1 of the population. In addition, the growth of morbidity in female reproductive system disorders was as follows: from 916.7 to 1,379.0 for salpingitis and oophoritis of the population; from 104.1 to 234.2 for endometriosis; from 391.5 to 1,389.0 for menstruation disturbances; from 208.4 to 381.7 for female sterility. The negative tendencies established in this study were accompanied by the growth of complications in the pregnancy course and labor from 4,109.6 to 6.951.5 of the population, as well as by the increase of the high risk group among newborns from 174‰ in 1991 to 393‰ in 2001, or 2.2-fold, the index of infectious morbidity among newborns 2.6-fold, thus making the probability of hospital infection 5.7-fold higher.
Zh. Mikrobiol. (Moscow), 2003, No. 6, P. 30—36