[The social hygienic aspects of disability and mortality in the Archangelskaya oblast].

The article analyses the indicators of disability and mortality in Archangelskaya Oblast. The medical sociological study of the disabled patients of able-bodied age was organized based on the characteristics of working activities and labor potentials to establish the prospective of involvement of this population category into the social economic development of the region. The emphasis is made upon the specific of population mortality in Archangelskaya oblast due to the external causes impact as a priority trend in enhancing the regional policy of medical demographic development.