[Health status of childbearing population of women in regions with different levels of infant mortality].

Under conditions of present demographic situation in the USSR with a view of scientific substantiation of priority directions in the development of regional programmes of medico-social activities in the field of maternal and child health the major importance is being given to the valid information on the health status of mothers and factors of social environment determining the conditions for intrauterine development of foetus and the formation of child health at early stages of life under conditions existing in specific regions. For this purpose simultaneously in Panevezhis, Lipetsk and Fergana which are representatively reflecting the specificity of regions with low, average and high infant mortality, on the basis of unified methodology a complex socio-hygienic survey of three cohorts of children of 1986 year of birth and their mothers during the present period of pregnancy and delivery was conducted. The data suggested the rise in the level of pathology identified during pregnancy and delivery among Fergana women as compared with Lipetsk and especially Panevezhis women.