Gigiena i sanitariia
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Gigiena i sanitariia · Mar 2001
[Substantiation of an algorithm of sanitary measures to improve quality of drinking water].
The authors analyzed different data available in the literature, reports of inspection of sanitary-and-epidemiological facilities and departments for ensuring the standard quality of water, and the results of long-term activities to eliminate the negative influence of water agent on morbidity. The protocols of epidemiological investigations of water-induced outbreaks of acute intestinal infections (AII) in the Republic of Byelarus in 1987-1997 were explored. ⋯ The more rapidly these measures are implemented, the shorter the outbreaks of AII are. An algorithm (schemes of laboratory control and measures) is substantiated and introduced for working out measures to eliminate the cause of water quality deterioration in the central water supply system.
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Gigiena i sanitariia · Mar 2001
Comparative Study[Health status of the residents in the area polluted by fluorine-containing discharges from the Tajik aluminium producing plant].
The paper presents the results of investigations and follow-up monitoring to study the environment-human health relationships in the vicinity of an aluminium plant to substantiate a complex of preventive and health-promoting measures. Experience in planning and organizing the monitoring of environmental pollution and the health status of workers and the general population may be useful in doing the same work in the vicinity of other aluminium-making works.
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Gigiena i sanitariia · Mar 2001
Comparative Study[Dynamics of some indices of immune defense and physical fitness in school children].
Examinations of 22 young unarmed self-defence sportsmen and 18 untrained schoolchildren indicated that the indices of nonspecific immunity defence--serum complement and lysozyme--depended on a season rather than on a motor activity regimen. Changes in the concentrations of hemoglobin and plasma iron were also obviously seasonal. ⋯ There was a direct relationship between direct and indirect parameters of iron exchange, physical fitness, and nonspecific protection factors. In all teenagers, the activity of serum lysozyme and complement was directly related to the plasma level of iron and the school children's physical fitness was closely correlated with plasma and blood cell iron concentrations.