ИСТИНА

Today health is an indicator of progress and social and economic development. It synthesised the achieved level of quality of life and economic well-being of the country. Public health is – the main feature of any human community (for example, people living in a given territory), its natural state. Public health shows both adaptive reactions of each individual and of the entire community, their ability to work most effectively, to defend the country, to help the elderly and children, to protect nature, etc., as well as reproduce and bring new healthy generation, to carry out their biological functions. There are many different methods for measuring public health. The experience of public health researches reveals different trends. We proposed and used the integral index - the Public Health Index (PHI), which integrate objective indicators of public health: infant mortality rate, life expectancy at birth for men and for women.