Health care supervisors' opinion on prophylactic work in medical organizations

 The aim: to investigate the condition of prophylactic work in medical organizations and to determine the directions for optimization of this process. Material and Methods. There has been carried out an anonymous questioning 92 of health care supervisors of the Saratov region, as well the analysis of data obtained from Saratov Regional Centre of medical prophylaxis. It was found that there were significant shortcomings in the individual items in the preventive work of medical organizations. Results. There has been determined the awareness of health care supervisors about normative-legal acts regulating prophylactic work; use of corresponding informational-methodical materials; management of registration documents and submission of reporting documents; performance of primary, secondary and tertiary prophylactic measures; realization of means and methods of hygienic upbringing and education of patients; activities of offices (departments) of medical prophylaxis. It has been established that the condition of prophylactic work in medical organizations of the Saratov region is at the satisfactory level but needs to be optimized. The directions of optimization are determined by the necessity to raise the levels of a number of characteristics analyzed. None of the considered measures of the first prophylaxis has been evaluated with the mark "good", (> 4,0 points); some measures of the secondary prophylaxis (purposeful sanitary-hygienic education of patients and members of their families in skills of care associated with a certain disease or with a group of diseases, etc.) (2 points) have been evaluated with the mark "unsatisfactory"; the state of the tertiary prophylaxis has been evaluated on the whole with the mark "satisfactory", i.e. 3,4 points. Conclusion. The obtained materials may be useful in daily practice of medical organizations.