Using medical birth registries in the Kola Peninsula for birth defects surveillance and investigation of their risk factors

• Main Author: Postoev, Vitaly Alexandrovich
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: UiT The Arctic University of Norway 2016
• Subjects: VDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Health sciences: 800::Community medicine; Social medicine: 801; VDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Helsefag: 800::Samfunnsmedisin; sosialmedisin: 801; VDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Health sciences: 800::Epidemiology medical and dental statistics: 803; VDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Helsefag: 800::Epidemiologi medisinsk og odontologisk statistikk: 803; VDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Clinical medical disciplines: 750::Pediatrics: 760; VDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Klinisk medisinske fag: 750::Pediatri: 760; DOKTOR-003; Kola Peninsula; Monchegorsk; Murmansk; kola peninsula; North-West Russia
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/10013

Medical birth registries are valuable sources of information about maternal and newborn’s health. In North-West Russia the registries were initiated in 1997 in the city of Monchegorsk and for all of Murmansk County in 2005. In this thesis we demonstrated the effectiveness of these data sources for s...