Abstract
BACKGROUND: Mycoses of the feet is a significant interdisciplinary health problem.
 AIM: To analyze and systematize the causes contributing to the high incidence of foot mycoses in Russia.
 MATERIALS AND METHODS: With the use of an anonymous questionnaire survey, the attitude of patients toward their health and the opinions of dermatologists and related specialists about the causes contributing to the high incidence of foot mycoses in the Russian population were analyzed.
 RESULTS: The reasons contributing to the high incidence of foot mycoses in Russia are ranked into four groups: (1) depend on the activities of the dermatological service; (2) are related to the level of professional training of doctors of related specialties; (3) objective organizational reasons for doctors of related specialties; (4) depend on the patients attitude to their health.
 CONCLUSION: The data obtained can be used to develop a complex of therapeutic and prophylactic measures to improve medical care for this contingent of patients.
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