[The medical aspects of manpower recruitment for the Armed Forces]

The article examines the problems of draft procurement from the point of view of military medical expertise. Based upon concrete examples the authors show how the criteria of medical selection of call-up personnel depend upon the socio-demographical situation of society, principles of Defense Policy and Force planning, health status of young generation. For the improvement of the draftees' health index and the quality of medical selection it is necessary to carry out definite sanitary and prophylactic measures among personnel of pre-conscription and call-up age, as well as assign qualified medical specialists to the staff of medical boards, who are good in the questions of military medical expertise. The authors provide one of the possible variants of changes in the medical draft selection procedure.