Morbidity of adolescent population in rural location

The health of children, including adolescents, is affected by a significant number of adverse factors that pose a risk to the normal development of the future generation and lead to an increase in the incidence rate in the Russian Federation. For assessing the morbidity rate on request, medical organizations that provide outpatient care to adolescents aged 15-17 living in rural areas have copied the form no. 12 “Information on the number of diseases registered with patients living in the area of care for the medical organization”. The study showed that in general in 2015-2017 there was an increase in the incidence the adolescent population. In the structure of primary and general morbidity, respiratory diseases, the share of which gradually decreased from 2015 to 2017, occupied the first place with a significant gap in adolescents aged 15-17. This corresponds to the all-Russian trend; however, the specific gravity of respiratory diseases in adolescents attached to the Leningrad Regional Clinical Hospital “Toksovskaya” is higher than the Russian average.