[Health status of pregnant women and infants in their first year of life in the Lithuanian S.S.R].

The analysis of a modern demographic situation, dynamics and causes of child mortality, the levels and patterns of pregnancy and childbirth pathology, the newborn and infants' disease rates in the Baltic Republics and the Byelorussian SSR enabled one to determine priority directions for the development of a complex programme on the improvement of mother and child health and reduction of child mortality in the Baltic Republics, these directions involve intensification of antenatal fetus protection due to the improvement of females' working conditions, development of medico-genetic counselling and wide application of prenatal diagnostic procedures for the detection of fetus developmental defects, optimization of women reproductive behavior under the conditions of complete provision with modern contraceptive means, propaganda of breast feeding.