Approaches to the Evaluation of the Main Parameters of the Health of Children-Orphans and Children Left Without Parental Care

Abstract: 
In the article the possibilities of using different data sources and methodologies for assessing the health status of orphans and children deprived of parental care. The complexity of the evaluation and associated with a variety of objects and subjects of evaluation. It is advisable to use a set of data: statistical reporting, data sampling surveys and departmental accounting, qualitative research, expert interviews. Methodological approaches Children’s Fund UNICEF, the world health organization allow you to create a system of indicators for the analysis of health status. Important role in the analysis of health status of children left without parental care in Russia is played by with 2013 the clinical examination of various categories of children. Analysis of indicators of child morbidity, disability and mortality suggests the health problems of children-orphans, living in institutions.

For citation: Kuchmaeva O.V. Approaches to the Evaluation of the Main Parameters of the Health of Children-Orphans and Children Left Without Parental Care. St. Petersburg Sociology Today. 2016. N. 7. P. 143-156.

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