INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO THE MEDICAL AND SOCIAL ASSESSMENT OF REPRODUCTIVE LOSSES IN THE POPULATION OF THE FAR NORTH AND THE ARCTIC REGIONS

Abstract

Insufficient attention has been paid to the problem of controlling reproductive losses in the medical and social context of the population in literature. Each country and region has its own peculiarities of controlling the dynamics of the level of this indicator, including the novelty of studying the medical and social processes of the Far North and Arctic regions. The relevance of this work consists in an interdisciplinary integrated approach to the analysis of medical and social problems of reproductive losses of the population of the Far North and Arctic regions of the Russian Federation. To implement the interdisciplinary approach, a group of methods is integrated: 1) epidemiological – to identify problems of prevention, causes, conditions and mechanisms of morbidity formation in order to justify preventive measures; 2) clinical and statistical – to analyze cases of reproductive losses; 3) anthropometric – to assess physical development; 4) sociological – to study the socio–hygienic conditions of living, quality of life, the formation of reproductive behaviors and reproductive attitudes; 5) statistical and mathematical – to identify the presence and nature of dependencies and differences between the signs of the studied phenomena. The authors formed and justified the «case-control» research method and proposed strategies for a comprehensive assessment of reproductive losses to achieve the purpose of the study: to scientifically substantiate the system of medical and social measures to control reproductive losses in women of reproductive age on the basis of its comprehensive assessment.