[The Medical Social Characteristics of Rural Women]

The article presents the results of medical social characteristics of rural women aged from 20 to 60 years (average age is 44.6+-1.2 years). One third of them have secondary special education, 75% are married, 46% are working mainly in agricultural sector. Out of all working women 25.8% are exposed to unfavorable industrial factors, 20.3% are working in areas related to intensive labor processes. In 77.3% of respondents there is no centralized water supply and sewerage in home accommodations and there is no gas heating in 45.4% of respondents. About half of all surveyed women mentioned environmental pollution with livestock, poultry keeping and farm enterprises waste. The low level of living was noted more than 80% of respondents. more than 70% suffer from improper feeding and 46% have overweight. The rate of occurrence of chronic diseases made up to 212.3 per 100 examined women. In the structure of morbidity diseases of blood circulation system made up to 28.2%. The health self-estimate of women demonstrated that 2.1% of women consider their health as excellent, 11.3% - as a good one, 54.4% as a satisfactory one and 32.2% as a bad one.