[New technologies, standard setting and department policy in the system of the state sanitary-epidemiologic surveillance].

The social and economic category "level of life" is to become a reliable and objective instrument for assessing population health, for it reflects the true income and expenditure of a territory for the state, municipal, and private consumption. A tendency to decrease of expenditures for private consumption, observed at some territories, absence of regulation of the relationships between the existing levels of the minimal salaries and survival minimum and the population health require hygienic norm-setting in the socioeconomic sphere of health protection and the relevant state surveillance of institutions of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service.