Problems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of MedicineProblems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of Medicine0869-866X2412-2106Joint-Stock Company Chicot35410.32687/0869-866X-2020-28-s1-705-710Научная статьяElderly mortality at the Russian Far East: seasonality and mitigationGrigorievaE. A.-SukhoveevaA. B.anna-sukhoveeva@yandex.ruInstitute for Complex Analysis of Regional Problems, Far-Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences151220202870571006042021Copyright © 2020,2020In many countries of the world, demographic changes have occurred, characterized by an increase in the share of socially inactive elderly people. The goal is a medical and demographic analysis of the elderly in the Far East. For Khabarovsk and Birobidzhan, seasonal patterns of mortality and self-preserving behavior of older people were investigated. In order to determine the actions and personal attitudes of self-preserving behavior for the prevention of cardiovascular diseases, elderly people who visited the Vertical fitness center in Birobidzhan were interviewed. It was found that the overall mortality rate among older people is higher among men than among women. The main causes of death are cardiovascular diseases, which have a pronounced seasonality with a maximum in winter. It is shown that 23% of men and 48% of women do not demonstrate high social and physical activity and do not have any skills to maintain their health.elderly mortalitycardiovascular mortalityseasonalityphysical activitysouth of the Russian Far Eastнаселение старшего возрастасмертностьсердечно-сосудистая смертностьсезонная динамикафизическая активностьюг Дальнего Востока[Annear M., Keeling S., Wilkinson T. Environmental influences on healthy and active ageing: A systematic review. Ageing Society. 2014;34(4):590-622. doi: 10.1017/S0144686X1200116X][Ревич Б. А., Шапошников Д. А. Изменения климата, волны жары и холода как факторы риска повышенной смертности населения в некоторых регионах России. Проблемы прогнозирования. 2012;(2):122-39.][Gasparrini A., Guo Y. Mortality risk attributable to high and low ambient temperature: a multicountry observational study. Lancet. 2015;386(9991):369-75. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)62114-0][Смирнова М. М., Горбунов В. М., Андреева Г. Ф. Влияние сезонных метеорологических факторов на заболеваемость и смертность населения от сердечно-сосудистых и бронхолегочных заболеваний. Профилактическая медицина. 2012;15(6) 76-86.][De Freitas C., Grigorieva E. A. Role of acclimatization in weather related human mortality during the transition seasons of autumn and spring in a thermally extreme mid-latitude continental climate. Int. J. Environ. Res. Pub. Health. 2015;12(12):14974-87. doi: 10.3390/ijerph121214962][Koolhaas C., Dhana K., Rooij F. Physical activity types and health-related quality of life among middle-aged and elderly adults: The Rotterdam Study. J. Nutr. Health Aging. 2018;22:246. doi: 10.1007/s12603-017-0902-7][Самородская И. В., Ларина В. Н., Бойцов С. А. Вклад четырех групп неинфекционных заболеваний в смертность населения регионов Российской Федерации в 2015 г. Профилактическая медицина. 2018;21(1):32-8.][Sukhoveeva A. B., Grigorieva E. A. Environmental and medical and social factors in the quality of life, reproductive health of the population: Priamurye as a case study. IOP Conference Series: Earth Environment. Sci. 2019;381:012031. doi: 10.1088/1755-1315/381/1/012031][Grigorieva E. A., Sukhoveeva A. B. Elderly mortality and climate at the Russian Far East. Regional Problems. 2018; 3(1):30-3. doi: 10.31433/1605-220X-2018-21-3(1)-30-33][Cheng J., Bambrick H. Heatwave and elderly mortality: An evaluation of death burden and health costs considering short-term mortality displacement. Environ. Int. 2018;115:334-42. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2018.03.041]