TABLE 6: Selected causes of morbidity, Russia and the City of Moscow, 1988-1995

(initial diagnosis per 100,000)

Conditions Russia Moscow
  1988 1990 1995 1988 1989 1990 1990# 1997#
All causes of morbidity 66000 65120 67880 n/a 63351 56743 122088 153900
Infectious diseases

Scarlet fever

Diphtheria

Pertussis

Measles

Flu/URI

Viral hepatits

HIV-carriers

 3420

132.3*

0.8*

28.8*

130.5*

30312*

227.0*

n/a

 3490

83.6

0.8

16.9

12.4

26914

226.7

n/a

 4730

48.3

24.1

14.0

4.5

21901

167.5

0.72

 n/a

189.8#

0.5#

128.3#

140.7#

53317.9#

73.5#

n/a

 2434

199.0#

1.1#

78.6#

18.1#

48276.6#

76.3#

n/a

 2233 3216

148.0

4.4

62.9

22.4

38541.1

84.7

0.20

 35652

223.6^^

4.05^^

48.4^^

6.1^^

32411.2

97.2

58.5
Circulatory system

Incl. IHD+hypertension

1044

369.9*

 1123

423.6

 1330

391.2^

 n/a 1173

476

 1124

447

 23829

16457

 27260

n/a
Respiratory system 36450 33620 29530 n/a 34297 29239 34312 60500
Digestive system 2750 2720 3630 n/a 1587 1574 10006 11790
Congenital anomalies 58 70 110 n/a 15 15 132 3077
Traumas and poisoning 8210 8520 8800 n/a 10229 10511 9979 n/a
Neoplasms 560 550 660 n/a 747 712 3204 n/a
Malignant Neoplasms n/a 265 279 302 355 367 2102 n/a
Alcoholism

Narcotic addiction

 266*

2.1*

 152

4.3

 156

16.9

 150

4.4

 230

3.2

 141

2.9

 1646

34

 n/a

n/a
Gonorrhea (all forms)

STD**

 148* 259 354 n/a 211 173 203 n/a

644.7
Syphilis (all forms) 9.8* 10.8 355.3 n/a 14.5 16.3 253.6 197^^
Active Tuberculosis 41.2* 34.2 57.9 n/a 28.1 22.9 145.2 32.1^^

*data for 1985; ^ data for 1994; #prevalence rates (all registered cases, including initial diagnoses); derived from the City of Moscow Government Report about “The State of Health in Moscow, 1997”, Moscow, 1998; ^^cases of initial diagnosis; ** selected Sexually Transmitted Diseases (exclude gonorrhea) include chlamydia, gardnerella, urogenital herpes, uroplasmosis= 229.4 - 419.3/100,000; and trichomonas= 225.4/100,000;

(source: Vishnevsky, 1995; Moskva v Tsifrakh, 1990; Goskomstat, 1996; Dept of Public health, Moscow City Council, Bureau of Medical Statistics, 21 March 1991. Mean Moscow Indicators of the Medical Dept. of Mosgorispolkom 1989-1990. Moscow, 1991).