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    These measures are targeted to increase satisfaction of patients, to meet their needs and expectations, that contributes into ensuring of patient-oriented principle in paid medical services application.The phenomenon of leadership for long time attracts attention of scientists and practitioners of various specialties, including medicine. Among numerous research publications on this topic, dissertations occupy special place, as both research and public defense are carried out in accordance with officially established rules. To achieve the research goal of studying characteristics of dissertations on leadership implemented in 1995-2019 in various scientific specialties bibliometric analysis, logical and descriptive statistics were applied. The sampling of 305 dissertations on leadership were analyzed in digital databases of scientific libraries. The analysis established that number of dissertations on leadership submitted to dissertation councils changed significantly over the analyzed period. In the structure of dissertations, predominated problems of political leadership (37.4%), formation of leadership qualities in young individuals (19.0%) and management on the basis of leadership potential (12.5%). The women, as compared to men, made up to 27.3% among authors dissertations on leadership. The main reserve of further study of phenomenon of leadership is implementation of dissertations on mentioned research themes in other scientific specialties that provide this area of research, as well as inclusion of theme of leadership in the scientific specialty 14.02.03 – public health and public health.The article is devoted to implementation of state policy of increasing duration of healthy life and active longevity of population through involvement of the elderly into sport and physical activity. The article is based on the results of focus group discussions of respondents aged 60 years and older. The interest and personal involvement of the elderly in sport and physical activity, including corresponding personal motivation and attitude. The particular obstacles to sport activities in specific Russian cities including inconsistencies between municipality administration proposals for exercises and opportunities of participating in area of residence of the elderly. see more The proposals of the elderly related to to sports [promotion in their residences as component of state policy in increasing duration of active longevity are summarized.The article presents results of studying health of 1050 students of medical University. The prevalence and severity of otorhinolaryngological pathology among students is of priority attention. It was established that with high self-assessment of competence in health issues, only 55.4% of first-year students and 59% of last-year students mentioned importance of maintaining healthy lifestyle. The analysis of students’ morbidity permitted more than half out of them to refer to frequently sick with chill (68.1% and 68.9%respectively). The rhinosinusitis acute conditions were 6.2±0.3 cases in first-year students and 8.6±0.5 cases in graduate students and in 2017 2.8±0.2 and 3.1±0.3 cases respectively. The early start of antibacterial medication intake by respondents because of chill was established. While in one third of all cases this was implemented because of advice of pharmacy employee. It is concluded that it is necessary to develop preventive program concerning otolaryngological pathology that can be implemented on part-time classes.The young generation aged 16-24 years is the main demographic national reserve for coming decades. Hence, the purpose of the study is to investigate attitude of modern youth exemplified by students of medical university to establishing family, marriage and birth of children, and also their awareness about issues of reproductive health and training of couple to birth of healthy progeny considering modern approaches of personalized “4P Medicine”. The survey of medical students was carried out on the basis of sampling of 193 students in November 2019 to February 2020. The survey data was processed using software SPSS 21. The indices of descriptive and analytical statistics were calculated to analyze study results. The low awareness of medical students on issues of pregravid training and modern approaches of personalized «4P Medicine» was established. Despite the fact that significant number of students understand importance of improving their awareness of reproductive health and pregravid training from positions of “4P Medicine”, about quarter of all respondents never pondered about these issues. The majority of respondents lead healthy life-style and understand its importance for their health, including reproductive health. The students have positive attitudes to establishment of family and birth of children. It is necessary to improve awareness of medical students of reproductive health, pregravid training and main principles of personalized “4P Medicine”.The issue of preventing various diseases in children with disabilities is relevant around the world. The purpose of the study to investigate the oral health of disabled children with hearing impairments and with visual impairments and to determine problematic issues of their dental care support. The individual face-to-face questionnaire survey was carried out covering parents (legal representatives) of students of special general education school for children with hearing and visual impairments. The analysis of results of preventive examination of students was implemented by stomatologist. Two categories of students were covered by the study children with hearing impairment (first group) and children with visual impairment (second group), their families included. The first group consisted of 61 families with disabled children (37 boys (60.7%) and 24 girls (39.3%). The second group included 63 families with disabled children (35 boys (55.6%) and 28 girls (44.4%). The comparable structure of compared groups by eir parents, which was noted in 16.4% and 28.6% of cases correspondingly. The stomatological health problems are very relevant for disabled children as they often suffer from oral diseases and have difficulties in accessing quality dental care. The prevalence of caries, especially sub- and de-compensated, in disabled children with visual and hearing impairments is significantly higher than in children population as a whole.