[Health and the sociomedical needs of the young family]

Results of a comprehensive socio-hygienic examination of a young family with a baby aged under one are analyzed. The authors disclose the notion of the reproductive function and health of a woman in connection with childbirth, upbringing of children, and meeting the basic requirements of an infant under one in medical care and in creation of an environment needed by such an infant. The authors present an assessment of the readiness of a young family to childbirth and upbringing of children, analyze the role of a mother in the formation of the health status of her children and of a family as a whole, and classify the families by their readiness to childbirth and to upbringing of children a relationship between the behaviour of a young mother and her child's health and quality of care of a child in a family is analyzed. The authors come to a conclusion that medicosocial requirements of a young family are governed by familial structure, health of af couple, baby's health, behaviour of a young family, and the communal conditions.