Vol 10, No 2 (2011)

The actual research methods in sociology of medicine provide an opportunity to study the processes of the formation of public opinion concerning the medical social events to receive the information both as subjective values of implemented measures and objective indicators of public health system functioning. The analysis of medical sociologic information of this kind permit to implement the operational feedback from patients (population) and other legal personalities of public health system functioning. This approach permits to make a decision on specific managerial tasks, to evaluate their effectiveness and ultimately to develop new medical sociologic technologies enhancing the effectiveness of innovations in public health.

The data of sociologic empirical study (2006-2010) was used to monitor the need in formation of the social role of physician-pedagogue. The study included such aspects of physician-pedagogues as the support and regulation of new possibilities, the provision of alternatives in realization of social and professional potential, the adaptation to sociologic pedagogic innovations.

The article explains the results of the personal medical sociologic study of the model of formation of scientific potential in profession-genesis dynamics. The conclusion is made concerning the need in developing of the system of ordering scientific manpower for various directions of medicine.

The article presents the analysis of self-assessment of tutors in the system of postgraduate secondary professional training of stomatologists in 36 educational institutions from different regions of Russia. The study investigated the priority directions of functioning and professional results satisfaction. The assessment of personal qualification and application of actual didactic techniques was given.

The article presents the results of sociological analysis of factors of natural reproduction of regional population from the point of view of particular municipal formations (Belgorodskaya oblast as a case study). The factors most impacting the demographic situation are determined. The technique of monitoring of assessment of demographic situation on the regional level is proposed with organizational mechanism and system of indicators included.

The article deals with the study results concerning the social adaptation and life quality of patients with pharmacoresistant depressive states. The most successful social functioning was established in patients with melancholy syndrome. The patients with worried depression syndrome assessed the social adaptation social adaptation higher than life quality. The patients with apathetic depressive syndrome emphasized a higher life quality than social adaptation. The patients with pharmacoresistant depressions within the scope of schizoaffective disorder expressed an apparent dissonance between values of social adaptation and life quality. In patients with depressive states within the scope of organic lesion of brain and within the scope of affective disorders the corresponding indicators had no significant difference.

The labor achievements depend on both the professional training of personnel and health status of specialists. The need in information concerning healthy life-style is one of the indicators of attitude to health. The article analyses the results of students' poll carried out in 8 cities of Russia. The interest of respondents to various aspects of healthy life-style is analyzed. The impact of different factors (gender differences, health self-assessment, etc.) on cognitive activity in this area is considered. The opinions of students of first and last courses concerning the first medical aid provision are compared to investigate the impact of university education on the ability to implement this kind of care.

The article presents the results of dynamic medical sociological survey applied to a sample of patients with toxic (mercurial) encephalopathy of professional genesis. It is demonstrated that the decrease of patients' life quality is due to both psychoneurological disorders and inability to provide their compensation by satisfactory mechanisms of psychological functioning. The frustration, intrapersonal conflict in certain life areas and desadaptative behavior concerning disease are also present.