[Sanitary and epidemiologic wellbeing of children and adolescents and training programs for physicians]

New requirements to sanitary and epidemiological conditions of the population life which are to be introduced according to the law of the Russian Federation demand comprehensive knowledge of general hygiene, epidemiology, nutrition, labor hygiene, human ecology, etc., by general practitioners. The network of existing prophylactic, educational and scientific centers should not be destroyed, but improved to train skilled specialists.