[Mortality trends of Krasnoyarsk Region population from oncological diseases]

An increasing general trend in aging of population during the last decade stipulates the necessity to conduct a comparison (both in time and territory aspect) of either age-specific health indices or their standard variants because without age peculiarities of population during different years the results might be misrepresented. The data acquired in the course of the present study indicate that oncological morbidity of population in the Krasnoyarsk region in the majority of age and social groups (urban and rural inhabitants) not only have not increased but even dropped in 1989 as compared with 1959. One should be careful in assessing general indices of population health along with obligatory use of methods permitting to take into account the demographic peculiarities of population in the years compared.