Gigiena i sanitariia
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Gigiena i sanitariia · May 2004
[Influence of negative factors of the living environment on respiratory diseases in children].
An epidemiological survey was made in 9 cities and towns of Russia to study the influence of negative characteristics of an inhabited place on respiratory diseases in children. About 6,000 questionnaires questioning the living conditions of young children were filled in. ⋯ The logistic regression analysis was used to examine the relationship between the characteristics of the inhabited place of schoolchildren and the presence of respiratory and allergic diseases. A significant relationship was established between the frequent leakages, the presence of mould in the rooms, and the risk for bronchial asthma, persistent productive cough, persistent stertorous respiration, respiratory infections and any manifestations of allergic reactions in children.
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Gigiena i sanitariia · May 2004
[Hygienic aspects of the impact of solid waste disposal sites on the habitat].
The "Dmitrovsky" solid garbage (SG) ground is one of the largest enterprises of this kind in the Moscow Region. A total of 200,000-750,000 tons of solid garbage (91%) and industrial waste products (9%) annually come to the ground. ⋯ From the accumulated SG deposits, iron, manganese, beryllium, titanium, barium, boron, petroleum products enter the surface and underground waters, methane, carbon oxide, ammonia, toluene, xylene, hydrogen sulfide, cresol, phenol come into the atmospheric air; the compounds of zinc, lead, cadmium, copper, nickel, magnesium, and cobalt do into the soil. The studies conducted in 1997-2002 make it possible to establish that the ground has a negative impact on the environment and to evaluate the efficiency of nature-conservation and hygienic measures, and to improve the technological process of SG utilization.
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Gigiena i sanitariia · May 2004
[Health status and physical development in Stavropol' preschool children].
A total of 1097 children aged 2 to 6 years who went to preschool children's facilities in Stavropol were examined. Of them there were 525 (47.7%) boys and 574 (52.3%) girls. ⋯ A comprehensive analysis of the health status of the study groups shows that at preschool age, the number of children having Health Group I decreased at the expense of an increase in Health Group III children. The reasons for a rise in the incidence of diseases at this age may be more cases of poor living conditions, tense adaptive processes in the presence of incomplete immunogenesis, physiological lymphoid tissue hyperplasia, high rates of allergic reactions.