MORBIDITY OF THE CHILD AND ADOLESCENT POPULATION OF AZERBAIJAN

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The article presents data on the incidence of children in Azerbaijan aged 0 to 13 years and adolescents 14–17 years for the period 2007–2016. The analysis of the prevalence of diseases belonging to different classes of ICD-10, the assessment of changes in the structure of morbidity for the ten-year period. The materials of the State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan are used in the work. It was found that although the overall incidence of children 0-13 years had a tendency to decrease, there is a clear increase in the prevalence of diseases of the digestive, nervous, musculoskeletal systems, blood-forming organs and diseases of the eye and adnexa. Over the period of 2007-2016, the overall incidence of adolescents 14–17 years increased 2.5 times. The increase in morbidity was observed in almost all classes of diseases. The prevalence of diseases of the nervous, digestive, musculoskeletal, and urogenital systems, diseases of the eye at a particularly high rate.

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children adolescents health status structure of diseases

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Publication:

«World of Medicine and Biology» Vol. 19 No. 85 (2023) , с. 31-35
УДК 613.956

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26724/2079-8334-2023-3-85-31-35