Digital technologies application as means of control and supervision in terms of management decision-making in the system of sanitary and epidemiological welfare of population (Army)
Authors: Lopatin S. A. , Bokarev M. A. 
Published: February 2023

INTRODUCTION: It is impossible to improve medical supervision of military personnel’s service conditions and life in the near future without creating a global monitoring network, which in real time allows to evaluate all habitat critical points with the greatest impact on health and thereby to respond quickly to changes in the sanitary and epidemiological situation. It requires creation and development of an established information exchange system with the military authorities, external structures and units, undertaking timely measures to prevent or minimize the negative impact of various factors on individual and collective health.

OBJECTIVE: Based on the analysis of literature sources and results of my own research make the case via digital technologies for combining into united information and analytical system executives of organizational, administrative, engineering and technical, health-care, veterinary and other measures, aimed at eliminating or reducing harmful effects of environmental factors on humans, thereby ensuring sanitary and epidemiological welfare of the population (forces).

MATERIALS AND METHODS: There was the analysis of articles, placed in the data base and information systems (scientific electronic library Elibrary.ru, RISC, Scopus), studying the possibility to apply digital technologies in control and supervisory activities in recent years. The following keywords were used: health and epidemiological welfare, digital technologies, medical examination, efficiency of preventive activities. To develop proposals on improving information and analytical system, the results of the author’s long-term studies, concerning the control features mainly of water and food factors, were also considered.

RESULTS: The base of usefulness to involve preventive science in digital transformation of military medicine and to apply digital technologies in control and supervisory activities to enhance its impact was presented. Implementation of digital technologies in the system of sanitary and epidemiological welfare of the population (forces), especially in control and supervisory activities for water and food factors, will allow to increase the validity, quality and efficiency of management decisions of the preventive focus.

DISCUSSION: To adopt digital practices in executive work of control and supervisory activities, information analysis, obtained in the process of medical examination and social-hygienic monitoring seems promising, as well as determining causation between staff health and effects of habitat factors. The data of observation and instrumental food, water control and other environmental elements were used in carrying out social-hygienic monitoring. To improve hygienic diagnosis, it is important to have progress regarding instrumental monitoring of military personnel’s health as well as their efficiency.

CONCLUSION: The study showed the necessity primarily by means of digital technologies to unite executors of preventive (anti-epidemic) measures into a single automated information analytical system, aimed at eliminating or reducing the harmful effects of environmental factors on humans, preventing infectious and non-infectious diseases that helps to reach effective exchange of information between different ministries and departments. The authors came to the conclusion that digital transformation of the data on the habitat factor quality should primarily be developed with regard to water and food factors as it has the highest rank values.