Contribution of BSMU employees to the study of endocrine pathology in the population of Chernivtsi region in 1975-2005

The article analyzes the contribution of ChDMI and BDMA scientists to the study of endocrine pathology in the period 1975-2004. The relevance of the study is due to the approach of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the higher medical educational institution in the Chernivtsi region and the determination of the achievements of the higher education team in the specifi ed fi eld of health care. The research methodology is based on the study of archival sources, photographic materials, printed scientifi c works and interviews of active employees of that period. The scientifi c novelty of the study consists of several source materials introduction into scientifi c circulation of the modern historical science spheres. Conclusions. It should be mentioned, that the goiter desease did not disappear from the territory of Chernivtsi region during 1975-2004 period. In spite of the activity of BDMA scientists in the fi eld of combating endocrine diseases it still lasts in this chronologically limited period. The reason means the lack of real actions and preventions of the state and medical administration against it on the background of victorious reports about its elimination. So, attention to this disease was less than needed. In principle, there was no previous system of prevention of IBD. During the crisis period, which coincided with a change in the social and economic order in society, the social and domestic living conditions worsened. The ecological situation was negatively aff ected by the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. As a result of the mentioned reasons, the structure of endocrine pathology changed in the direction of thyroid cancer and diabetes. The medical scientists of our educational institution didn’t stop fi ghting such sickness complex and provided their research, as well as medical practice, outgrew the problems of the pathogenesis of the disease and moved to the research of the process of clinical endocrinology and the study of additional factors of the occurrence of diseases (such as radiation). They made systematic eff orts to help the regional health care system in the prevention of this disease. The sphere of interest of the Academy’s scientists has gone beyond our regional problems. They repeatedly considered endocrine pathology in the all- Ukrainian context, as well as on a planetary scale. Disorders due to iodine defi ciency have been recognized as a group of global social diseases. According to the WHO, in 2003 > 2 billion people (35 % of the global population), including 284 million children, suff ered from the consequences of iodine defi ciency due to where they live