INFANT MORTALITY IN THE SOUTHERN URALS IN THE 1930 YEARS

• Main Authors: Ravilya Rakhimyanovna Khisamutdinova, Albina Islamovna Azhigulova
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Science and Innovation Center Publishing House 2018-02-01
• Series: Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem
• Subjects: младенческая смертность; детородный возраст; естественный прирост; демографический спад
• Online Access: http://journal-s.org/index.php/mrsp/article/view/10414

Purpose. The purpose of this paper is to study infant mortality in the southern Urals in the 1930 years and the establishment of its causes. The relevance of the researched problem is connected with difficulties of solving demographic problems in the country and the policy of the state to protect motherhood and childhood. Methodology. Basis of research is historical and comparative and historical and systematic methods and critical analysis. Results. Infant mortality is the most significant symptom of demographic decline among the population. This period has been one of the most difficult in the history of our nation, as it was accompanied by major economic, social and political processes that influenced the decline of natural increase among the population. Based on the analysis of Central and local archives, statistical information of mortality of the 1930 years in the region, the authors made the weather dynamics of the number of deaths among children under 1 year and came to the conclusion that the causes of high mortality in the early 1930 years were not only the political processes in society, and especially the famine of 1932–1933 years. The authors have proved that the population of the southern Urals in the 1930 years the mortality rate of children under 1 year was high, not only in relation to the population of the region but for the country as a whole. The number of child deaths in the region was the leader Chelyabinsk region, especially among the urban population. This was due to the high level of population, the predominance of urban population over the rural, the needs of industrialization, that is heavy physical labour of women, weak health care system. By the middle of the period under review, despite the measures taken by the state for the support of motherhood and childhood, the infant mortality rate in the southern Urals remains at a high level, increasing the number of illegal abortions, infectious diseases in the summer months, not enough health care professionals. The study established and revealed the main reasons for high infant mortality in the 1930 years in the southern Urals. Despite the measures taken by the state for the support of motherhood and childhood, the infant mortality rate in the southern Urals remains at a high level, increasing the number of illegal abortions, infectious diseases in the summer months, not enough health care professionals. Practical implications. The results of the study can be applied in solving contemporary problems of infant mortality, bodies of accounting and statistics.