Some results of the organization assessment of outpatient aid to children’s population in a municipal area

Abstract

Primary health care for children is the mainstay of the system of medical care for children and includes measures for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment of diseases, medical rehabilitation, the development of healthy lifestyles and sanitary and hygienic education for the children. Medical organizations located in rural areas have particularities in the system of providing medical care to the population. This concerns the type, capacity, disposition of medical organizations, their provision with qualified medical personnel, and the possibility of obtaining qualified medical care. In order to assess the state of outpatient care for children under the conditions of municipal health care, data was taken out of the federal statistical reporting “Information on medical organization” form 30 “Information about the number of diseases registered in patients living in the area of service of the medical organization” form 12 for 2015-2017. The research was based on the Toksovo District Hospital, a state budgetary health care institution in the Leningrad Region. In the course of the study, pediatric staff were evaluated for pediatric staff, indicators of outpatient care for the children, indicators of the burden of pediatricians and morbidity rates for the treatment of children. It was found that in the years under study there was a high level of provision of pediatricians with an attached pediatric population, an increase in the number of district pediatricians and a decrease in the part-time ratio. The increase in the workload of pediatricians conducting outpatient admissions, including district pediatricians, associated with an increase in visits for diseases in 2015-2017, indicates a deterioration in the health of the children’s population, as evidenced by an increase in the overall morbidity rate for outpatient using the child population.