Child Mortality in the 1970s in Western Siberia

The article examines the dynamics of morbidity and mortality of the child population of Western Siberia in the 1970s. Special attention is paid to the mortality of newborns, which shows the level of development of medicine and its ability to provide effective assistance to society and, especially, the family in overcoming the most difficult period in a person's life. A new born is very fragile and incapable of independent existence without the help of adults. The author gives special attention to the reasons of the negative dynamics of child mortality and its structure. The child population of Western Siberia fully reflected in its development the situation in the RSFSR. But there were also some peculiarities. The increase in infant mortality was more extended over time than in Russia. The rate of increase in the mortality of newborns was higher than in the whole of the Russian Federation, and the period of the rise in mortality is stretched over time. The rise in mortality itself was of varying magnitude, and did not begin at the same time. The Novosibirsk Region and the Altai Territory suffered the largest losses as a result of recurrent infant mortality in the 1970s. However, the rise in the mortality of children, including infants, was observed everywhere in Western Siberia. A relatively small increase was observed in the Tyumen region, but there the rise was from the largest starting positions in all three of its constituent territories and more extended in time. As a result of the relapse of infant mortality, the region was moved from the territories where the infant mortality rate was lower to the regions where the infant mortality rate was higher than the national one. This situation persisted until the end of the USSR and is observed in modern times.