Epidemiology of alcohol dependence in the Khanty-Mansi autonomous area - Yugra

Objective was to study the prevalence of alcoholism and the development of the ethnocultural specifics of morbidity with alcoholism in the population of the natives of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area. Materials and methods. Data of statistical account on the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area, the Russian Federation, in the populations of the indigenous small peoples (Khants and Mansi) in the comparison with the remaining population of region were used. Within the framework of cross-cultural analysis ethnologic, clinical-epidemiological and statistical methods were applied. Results. The 10-year dynamics of the indices of the prevalence of alcohol dependence in the population of Yugra and Ural Federal Region showed differences both in the value of indices and on the features of their dynamics. The results of the comparative cross-cultural analysis of the epidemiological parameters of alcohol dependence among the natives of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area - Yugra and alien population testify to the high primary morbidity with alcoholism among Khants and Mansi in comparison with the alien population.