Over the last 5 years the scientists of the department published in magazines over 300 works, defended 7 PhD theses, released 14 guidelines, 15 information letters, received 10 patents for invention

Conferences and seminars

Employees of the department annually organizes work on scientific and practical conference "Medical and social problems of childhood", where scientists of the department make presentations.

Prof. Fedortsiv O. participated in the Congress of the Polish Society of lung diseases from 1september 2010 to 4 september 2010 in Mykolaykiv city in Poland, and presented there spoken report: "Epidemiology of asthma, causes, risk factors, prevention."

Prof. Fedortsiv O., assistant professor Kubej I. were abroad 8-11 September 2011 in Krakow (Poland) at the scientific conference "Epidemiology and prevention of asthma in children" with their reports: "Allergic respiratory diseases in children. Modern factors", "Possible non-specific adaptive immune factors in the development of pneumonia in children", "Clinical and laboratory criteria of pneumonia".

Associate Professor Vorontsova T. from 24 January to 28 January 2012 participated in the Congress of pediatricians in Russia (Moscow).

Prof.Fedortsiv O. from 10 October 2013 to 10 October 2013 participated in the international conference "Polish-Slovak XXVI days Pulmonology and Allergology" in the city Rabka Zdroj, Poland.

Assistant professor Kinash M. received training at Wroclaw Medical University pediatric gastroenterology from 28 October to 11 November 2013, in Wroclaw, Poland.

Assistant professor Vorontsova T. and assistant professor Kubej I.from 19 November to 21November 2013 visited the Kirov State Medical Academy, in Kirov, Russia. There were lectures for students of the 5th year of pediatric and medical faculties in endocrinology and neonatology.

Prof. Fedortsiv O. from 14 October 2014 to 24 October 2014. participated in an international symposium in Saskatun, Canada "Safety and health of the rural population: Global Perspectives (SHAPR)», which made a presentation.

Assistant professor Vorontsova T. from 9 September to 11 September 2014 took part in the 6th Congress of Pediatricians of CIS in Minsk, Belarus.

Prof . Fedortsiv O. from 14 March to 15 March 2015 participated in an international conference in Yelenya-Hura, Poland, where maded the report "Peculiarities of asthma in young children." Between 6 and 9 May 2015 at the State Higher Professional Medical School in Opole, Poland, held the second international conference entitled "From idea to publication." Professor O. Fedortsiv actively participated in the Forum, where made the report "Application objectively statistical analysis to present data in scientific publications."

8-9 october, 2015 prof. O. Fedortsiv with her graduate student had the report ‘Oxidative stress and psychological component in the mechanisms of asthma in children’ on XXVIII Slovak-Poland Voitec-Rudnic pneumophtisiological and immunoallergological days in Zakopane, Poland.

The department prepared 10 information sheets on innovations in health care, 6 monographs, 3 patents, 9 books and manuals.

The report ‘Oxidative stress and psychological component in the mechanisms of asthma in children’ on XXVIII Slovak-Poland Voitec-Rudnic pneumophtisiological and immunoallergological days in Zakopane, Poland 8-9 october, 2015 by prof. O. Fedortsiv, 2015 year.

Research

Research work of the department “Impact of eco pathological factors on the health of children” is aimed at:

-installation of modern trends in the health of children of different age groups and peculiarities of factors that form it;

-determination of interconnection between the components of health, level of basic marker homeostasis of child organism, indicators of immunological reactivity, mineral exchange, intestine biocenosis and lipids peroxidation socio - environmental and living conditions;

-development of comprehensive criteria for evaluating and monitoring the health of children in areas with different socio - environmental conditions;

-creation of regional anthropometrical standards;

-evaluation of features of actual nutrition of children of critical groups (first year of life, primary school, adolescence), his relationship with the formation of common childhood diseases;

-proceeding of food and drug correction methods of food worsening;

-development of new prevention technologies that provide improvement of adaptive capacities of children to adverse factors of natural and social environment;

-establishing clinical - diagnostic criteria of children disadaptation, creation of a program of forecasting health disorders, taking into account the impact of environment pathological and health - social factors;

-formation of differentiated preventive – rehabilitation measures for children with different risk groups;

-organization of health - social and psychological assistance;

-study of mechanisms basic systems of organism adaptation to environmental conditions, which constantly change, influencу of food on children's health in the postnatal period of ontogenesis, risk factors, which determine the development of level of social integration in critical age periods;

-improving methods of diagnosis, treatment and preventive osteoporosis in children with various somatic pathology, development of methods of correction of detected changes.

The Department annually performs scientific conferences on environment pathological factors in childhood.

Major scientific achievements of the department

A new concept of etiopathogenesis of chronic nutrition disorders in children is developed, a new approach for prevention and treatment was proposed; efficiency of enterosorbents separately and in combination with bacterial preparations, immunostimulants and antioxidants in chronic nutrition disorders, infectious diarrhea in children of early age was studied. Monograph by Fedortsiv O. Y. 'Chronic nutrition disorders in children of early age' was published.

Diagnosis criteria of malabsorbtion syndrome were proposed to practical medicine. Developed concept: the bases of dyspeptic syndrome in children of early age are violations of abdominal and pre-wall digestion and absorption. A fundamentally new scheme of hypotrophy etiopathogenesis was developed and new methods of prevention and treatment were proposed.

Diagnostic criteria of endogenous intoxication syndrome in children with different pathology and methods of its correction were developed and implemented in health practice. Research shows the mechanisms of actions and efficiency in enterosorbents in complex treatment of somatic diseases in children.

Mechanisms of osteoporosis in different somatic pathology were studied.

Over the last 5 years, scholars of the department published in journals and digest more than 300 works, 14 methodic instructions, 8 newsletters were issued, 6 patents on inventions were received.

Proff. Boyarchuk O. R. and docent Volyanska L. A. on conference, 2018 year.