Total dynamics of child mortality rates in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) for the period 2006-2015

Abstract

The article provides a retrospective analysis of child mortality in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) for the period 2006-2015. According to the analysis, there is an evolution of child mortality rates, a steady trend towards a decrease in child mortality rates for many groups of diseases, the presence of gender differences in the structure of child mortality, high child mortality rates in the Arctic regions of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

Insertion of high-tech methods of medical care, input of pediatric and prenatal centers played a huge role for decreasing child mortality rate. Especially it is up-to-date issue in the conditions of the Arctic region, where children’s destinies are sometimes resolved by long distance and possibility of ambulance aircraft. Sufficiently huge number of child and adolescent mortality in RS (Y), due to external causes, makes social component of loss. Thus, in the modern stage of development of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) the peculiarities of child mortality include, at first, huge demographic significance, at the second-dependence on social life conditions. Because child health is a social category, child mortality rate and structure are integral criterions of population life quality rating and the quality of medical care in the region.