Assessing the impact of socio-economic factors on human health and using the results to make management decisions to ensure health and epidemiological well-being of the population (a Sverdlovsk region case study)

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614:611.4
DOI: 
10.21668/health.risk/2013.2.06.eng
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T.M. Derstuganova5, B.T. Velichkovskiy4, V.B. Gurvich1, A.N. Varaksin2, O.L. Malykh3, N.I. Kochneva3, S.V. Yarushin1

Organization: 

1Yekaterinburg Medical Scientific Center for Prevention and Health Protection in Industrial Workers, the Federal Service on Customers' Rights Protection and Human Well-Being Surveillance, Russian Federation, Yekaterinburg, 30 Popova St, 620014,
2 Institute of Industrial Ecology Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation, Yekaterinburg, 20a Kovalevskoy St, 620990,
3 The Sverdlovsk Region Departemnt of the Federal Service on Customers' Rights Protection and Human Well-Being Surveillance, Russian Federation, Yekaterinburg, 3Otdelniy Lane, 620078,
4 N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Russian Federation. Moscow, 1 Ostrovityanova St, 117997,
5 Center for Hygiene and Epidmeiology in the Sverdlovsk Region, Russian Federation, Yekaterinburg, 3 Otdelniy Lane, 620078

Abstract: 

Using factor, typological, correlation and regression analytical methods, we determined statistically significant correlations between the mortality rates among working age Sverdlovsk Region citizens and socio-economic indicators (the standards of living accommodation, healthcare quality, the level of social tension, dependency ratio) as well as comparing the increases in these indicators, taking into account the various time periods. We identified the influence of purchasing power on the mortality rates among working age people and assessed the economic damage to health due to premature death among working age people which is probabilistically associated with the impact of socio-economic factors. We identified the major directions for further work to ensure management decision-making by Russian regional executive authorities, local self-governing bodies and by the institutions of the Federal Service on Customers' Rights Protection and Human Well-Being Surveillance, to ensure health and epidemiological well-being of the population.

Keywords: 
socio-economic factors, purchasing power, mortality rates among working age people
Derstuganova T.M., Velichkovskiy B.T., Gurvich V.B., Varaksin A.N., Malykh O.L., Kochneva N.I., Yarushin S.V. Assessing the impact of socio-economic factors on human health and using the results to make management decisions to ensure health and epidemiological well-being of the population (a Sverdlovsk region case study). Health Risk Analysis, 2013, no. 2, pp. 49-58
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