Vestnik Akademii meditsinskikh nauk SSSR
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The ecological situation in the recent 20 years in the Kazakh SSR occupying one sixth of the USSR territory is analysed. The analysis shows a 3-29-fold rise in total morbidity for various infectious and somatic diseases associated with the drastic worsening of the ecological situation in the Aral Sea region; childhood and maternal mortality rates have significantly increased. ⋯ An important role played by the nutritional status in showing a cancerogenic effect by nitro compounds has been established. A complex of sanitary-hygienic measures aimed at improving the State sanitary control over the environmental objects and food products has been elaborated that will improve the ecological situation in this republic.
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Vestn Akad Med Nauk SSSR · Jan 1989
[Medico-ecological approaches to the evaluation of the role of the water factor in the human environment].
Medico-ecological approaches are formulated to elaborate preventive measures against adverse effects of the anthropogenically changed hydrological situation. The cause-effect relationships between the aquatic factor transformation and changes in the sanitary living conditions and people's health status are overviewed. The fundamentals of the medico-ecological approach to the prognosis of changes are expounded.
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Vestn Akad Med Nauk SSSR · Jan 1989
[Human ecology: current state and the prospects of its development].
Contemporary state of the human ecological problem is evaluated. A definition of human ecology as a science of interaction between a human being as a biosocial unit with external environment of different origin: natural, social, industrial, etc is given. Scientific investigations, dealing with the problem of human ecology, must be directed to the study of the influence of antropogenically changed external environment on the state of population's health in all natural and economic regions and to the search of ways and methods of preservation and improvement of health and life-quality of present and future generations.