Gigiena i sanitariia
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Gigiena i sanitariia · Sep 2006
Review[Assessment of human health damage as a priority of human ecology and a tool for justifying managerial decisions].
The paper analyzes of the currently available guidelines for assessing damages (in kind and value terms) caused by environmental factors to the population's health. The contributions of various diseases, the quality of the environment, bad habits, and other internal and external factors to the mortality structure in Russia are compared. The authors show it important to study the comparative role of the quality of life and its style, environmental pollution, the population's subjective perception of risks in the formation of health damages.