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Protection and improvement of the health status of peoples of the Republic of 

 Sakha (Yakutia) depend on solving many fundamental problems: 



congenital health problems; 



mother and child health protection; 



prolonging life expectancy and reducing mortality; 



environment and health; 



adaptation and urbanization: ethnic and psychobiological aspects; 



biological and social patterns and the health status of the ethnic groups in 



Yakutia; 



specific physiology of peoples of the north; 



pre-disease and primary preventive measures; 



rational diet and health status of the northerners; 



folk medicine and problems of health protection; 



morbidity of small ethnic grc.ups in Yakutia; 



specific features and the course of common and specific diseases among 



peoples of the north; 



infectious and noninfectious pathology in the regions of Yakutia; 



improving public health services in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia); 



establishing specialized medical assistance in the republic; 



training medical specialists domestically and abroad; 



health economics and organization of public health. 



Solving these problems requires further development of medical science in the 

 Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). 



Medical science in the republic is represented by minor scientific subdivisions of 

 federal and departmental organizations: 



The Yakut Branch of the Scientific Industrial Association and 

 Phthisiopulmonology of the Moscow Institute of Tuberculosis of the 

 Ministry of Public Health of the Russian Federation; 



Laboratory of Morphofunctional Research of the Institute of Medical 

 Problems of the North of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Medical 

 Sciences of the Russian Federation; 



Sector of Medical Ecology of the Yakut Scientific Center of the Siberian 

 Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; 



Medical sector of the Institute of Problems of Small Ethnic Groups of the 

 North of the Yakut Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of the Russian 

 Academy of Sciences. 



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