INCIDENCE AS THE MOST IMPORTANT INDICATOR OF HEALTH

Incidence should be considered as one of the most important indicators of health of the population. Since the 90’s of the last century, there is a number of negative trends in the health of children and teenagers such as the the steady increase in incidence rates of children in the Russian Federation, the increase in the number of chronic diseases and combined forms, increasing the number of children with disabilities. Growth of incidence is noted practically on all classes of diseases. The number of absolutely healthy children doesn’t exceed now 2–4%. In article the analysis of incidence of the children’s population according to negotiability to out-patient and polyclinic establishments of St. Petersburg is carried out.