The surveillance of nonspecific prevention of infectious diseases and the tasks of its improvement

Provision of sanitary-and-epidemiological well-being in the Russian Federation is one of the major priorities of policy of the state. In the country, the implementation of a package of organizational, preventive, and antiepidemic measures has made the sanitary-and-epidemiological situation stable. In the Russian Federation, the national plan of measures for 2005-2007 has been approved and is being implemented by the joint WHO measles control program by 2010. The recent noticeable decrease in the morbidity of measles in the Russian Federation suggests that the disease may be the third infection, after smallpox and poliomyelitis, to be eradicated in Russia. The high incidence of tick-borne viral encephalitis is a result of not only the insufficient coverage of the population with vaccination, but also the reduction in the scope of antitick treatments and the use of ineffective and environmentally unstable agents for barrier ground treatments. In recent years, the tuberculosis epidemiological situation has recently remained to be of strain in the Russian Federation; socially dysadaptive population groups are on the rise; the socioeconomic standard of living of most sections of the population continues to be low. The requisite measures to optimize the prevention of infectious diseases are to improve the methodology of epidemiological surveillance of infectious and parasitic diseases, to perfect an epidemiological surveillance system during the epidemic spread of infections, to assess an epidemiological risk, to make a microbiological monitoring of the major pathogens of infectious diseases, and to elaborate and perfect the strategy and tactics of nonspecific prevention of extremely dangerous infectious diseases.