Actual statistics on Ternopil oblast

(The information belongs to the Ternopil oblast directorate of health protection)
Aleksandr Stepanenko, Chortkiv

Unfortunately, the volume and quality of the data collected by the directorate has recently deteriorated, due to the lack of financing.

The population number:
Ternopil oblast — 1152.6 thousand;
town of Ternopil — 233.3 thousand;
Chortkiv district — 81.8 thousand.

Demographic indices:

The mortality rate among babies up to 1 year (per 1000 of newborns) in the oblast is 12.0, in particular:

Comparing to previous years, the mortality rate of babies changes its structure. The proportion of inborn defects, infectious diseases and pathological states, which appeared in the perinatal period (that is from the 28^th week of pregnancy to the 7^th day after birth) grows.

The differences between the baby mortality rates in various districts of the Ternopil oblast can be explained, in my opinion, by the lower level of social and economic development and medicine in particular in northern districts of the oblast: Lanovetskiy, Zborivskiy, Shumskiy. The fact that recently the proportion of above-mentioned causes of the baby mortality in Ukraine is growing, witnesses of the accumulation of genetic defects, decrease of the immunity and weakening the natural selection factor (this is the negative influence of medicine).

Infectious diseases in 2000:
Such great variation within one oblast is explained by the character of diseases and the accessibility of medical aid: for instance, an inhabitant of a far off village would not go to a district hospital with influenza; as a result, most cases are not registered at all.

Intestinal infections (per 10 thousand):
Viral mumps:
Leptospirosis:
Infectious hepatitis:
AIDS:
Neoplasms:
Dynamics of catching TB:
Number of beds:

Rather high number of infectious diseases (intestinal infections, viral hepatitis A, leptospirosis), in particular in the Chortkiv district, is due to the low quality of drinking water. The reasons of the unprecedented raise of mumps in 1999-2000 are the total decrease of immune resistance and bad vaccination. Not only TB, the frequency of which grew almost twice during last five years, can be called a disease caused by poor social and economic state. As risk factors for a larger number of diseases become: chemical and radiation pollution, inadequate nutrition, irrational medicinal drug therapy, mass alcoholism and other harmful habits, spontaneous migration, psychical and emotional stresses, unhealthy way of life, etc.