[The interdisciplinary approach as tool of pharmaceutical education of children: from theory to practice].

The pharmaceutical literacy is a necessary element of ensuring quality of human life that is to be formed at early age. The article demonstrates that key direction of development of health literacy is pharmaceutical education involving pharmaceutical workers. The necessity of development of pharmaceutical literacy in children through involvement into process of pharmaceutical education pedagogues and parents/legal representatives of child.

[NORMATIVE AND LEGAL ASPECTS OF THE FORMATION OF THE BASIC PREREQUISITES OF PUBLIC HEALTH (PUBLICATIONS REVIEW)].

Preservation of public health is the main goal of social progress and development of the society. The search for potential opportunities to improve individual and public health indicators is a positive predictor of increasing the socio-economic efficiency of the society and increasing the healthy life expectancy of citizens. The scientific review provides arguments in favor of the need for professional collaboration of specialists from various industries in order to universally realize the most important right of citizens to protect their own and public health.

[PROSPECTS OF INFORMATION INTERACTION OF MEDICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL SPECIALISTS IN ASSISTING GERIATRIC PATIENTS].

The authors substantiate the necessity for information exchange among medical and pharmaceutical specialists in providing health services to elderly people. Mandatory conditions for the implementation of the exchange of information are defined and the conceptual model is proposed for information interaction between the medical and pharmacy organizations. This model reflects the recommended sections, types of information, the sender information (doctor or pharmacist), consumer of information, and the purpose of using the information included in a separate section.

[RATIONAL COMBINATION OF MEDICATIONS FOR THE TREATMENT OF VASCULAR PATHOLOGY IN GERIATRICS].

We undertook retrospective analysis of combination of medications recommended for the long-term treatment of co-morbid vascular pathology (arterial hypertension + coronary heart disease + vascular atherosclerosis) in elderly patients (women, mean age 73 ± 4 yr) hospitalized in a multidisciplinary clinic of the Perm krai from January 2010 to December 2014. Data on the interaction (type A reactions) of concurrently prescribed drugs were compared with those of the National Register of Medicinal Remedies and WHO Classification of Adverse Drug Reactions. Polypragmasia was found to be a characteristic feature of all recommended combinations (4-5 medications were simultaneously prescribed to 56.