[Status and prospects of the development of postgraduate training of public health physicians in child and adolescent care].

The state and dynamics of postgraduate education of sanitary physicians and their assistants on child and adolescent hygiene were analyzed during 1972-76 and 1982-86 in the Soviet Republics and the USSR in general. Causal and effective relationships of the detected drawbacks were established and ways of their elimination according to the restructuring of the system of refresher courses in public health presented.