The female health: status, causes of deterioration, measures of improvement

Abstract

The deterioration of health status of female population is recognized as one of the important medical social problems. On its resolution depends reproduction of population and improvement of social demographic indices in the Russian Federation. The female health can be considered as one of the indices of physical, spiritual and social well-being of family. One of significant aspects of considering importance of female health status is her attitude to issues of her own health. The situation is aggravated by increase of asocial behavior in young women, accompanied by decreasing of quality of life and significant loss of moral values. Besides, organization of treatment and prevention measures for early detection and reduction of gynecological morbidity does not meet modern requirements. The economic conditions and ecological situation negatively contribute to deterioration of female health. Such social factors as lack of work or threat of losing it, low per capita income, inadequate housing and poor-quality nutrition, harmful habits deteriorate health status of female population. The status of one's own health and disease prevention are in last place in female population. In modern conditions, due to employment overload, women pay no due attention to their own health, do not undergo medical examinations, rarely visit physicians as study results confirm. The female health protection is facilitated not only by medical and diagnostic measures, but also by wide range of preventive activities, formation of healthy lifestyle, favorable conditions for education, work and life, legal and social support of women during child-bearing and child-rearing. The female health protection goes far beyond scope of medical problem and requires corresponding management decision-making and inter-departmental measures on legal and financial support of motherhood and childhood. Therefore, protection and promotion of female health, including reproductive health, are necessary conditions of achieving national security and improving demographic indices of the Russian Federation.