Gigiena i sanitariia
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Gigiena i sanitariia · Nov 1998
Comparative Study[Hygienic evaluation of staphylococcal nasal mucosal biocenosis in school children of an industrial city].
The results of microbiological spatial monitoring in Orenburg were evaluated. A biological variety of Staphylococcus on the nasal mucosa of schoolchildren were detected. The highest proportion of carriage of the pathogen Staphylococcus was found in different districts of Orenburg, which had the highest air pollution.
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Gigiena i sanitariia · Nov 1998
Comparative Study[Hygienic aspects of air pollution by sulfur-containing compounds].
The physiological and biochemical states of children and adults who resided in the vicinity of the sulphide-containing gas processing plant were studied. The chemical agents emitted by the plant were found to have adverse effects of the children's functional status, namely, decreased vital capacity of the lung, mental performance, retarded sensomotor responses, altered enzymatic system activity.
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Gigiena i sanitariia · Sep 1998
Comparative Study[Morbidity as a criterion for the evaluation of the impact of motor transport on the health of Moscow's population].
The paper presents data on motor transport pollution of the ambient air. From 1986 to 1996, the number of cars increased from 600,000 to 2,000,000, in Moscow the pollution index rose from 1.0 to 9.0. Motor transport is a source of noise and its proportion in the total noise is as high as 80%. ⋯ In the past 6 years, the total morbidity in infants of the first year of life has increased by 40%; the incidence of diseases of the nervous system, sense organs, and blood has shown a 1.5-fold increase, that of congenital malformations has twice grown. Poorer health in infants under 1 year is associated with the health in infants under 1 year is associated with the health of their mothers exposed to motor transport discharges. The findings strongly suggest that motor transport has an adverse effect on the population of Moscow and support that health of different populations is a criterion of sanitary and epidemiological well-being.