On the system of classification and coding territories in the Russian Federation
The most common method of statistical analysis in epidemiology is the retrospective analysis of infectious disease cases. Recorded in the system of Federal statistical observation they are not bound on specific localities, but to the areas of territorial bodies’ of Russian Federation Health Care Ministry and Rospotrebnadzor responsibility. In order to load the information into databases and use them in GIS, the spatial reference of statistical information to specific coordinates of suspected infection sites or to a specific administrative or specially designated territory having a spatial description is necessary. The aim of the work is to analyze the system of classification and coding administrative and specially allocated territories of the Russian Federation at various levels for the implementation of multifactor analysis of the epidemiological situation with the involvement of climatic, landscape, land management and other data, as well as to solve other problems of the territories spatial development.