ASSESSMENT OF ANTITUBERCULOSIS CARE TO CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS IN THE SIBERIAN FEDERAL DISTRICT IN 2010-2012

Abstract

The children and adolescents of the Siberian Federal District continue to have high tuberculosis morbidity rates that are 1.5-1.7 times greater than the average Russian rate. The severe clinical pattern of tuberculosis is noted among new tuberculosis cases. Preventive measures are insufficiently effective.

To improve the quality of antituberculosis care to the children and adolescents of the Siberian Federal District, it is necessary to coordinate the work of a specialized and general health service on the specific prevention and early detection of tuberculosis among the children and adolescents; to solve the problem associated with discontacts in the everyday foci of tuberculosis infection; to improve the material and technical basis of children’s sanatoria; to observe infection control measures in children’s hospitals and units (to allow for the reconstruction of existing buildings and the construction of new ones); and to brisk up the work on sanitary education of the population.