Gigiena i sanitariia
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Gigiena i sanitariia · May 2007
[Analysis of time series to establish the relationship of respiratory symptomatology in children to ambient air pollution fluctuations].
Eighty-five junior schoolchildren from Nizhni Tagil were examined on the basis of daily recording of respiratory and allergic symptoms by parents and continuous monitoring of ambient air pollution with suspended matter and irritating gases. Regression analysis of the findings has ascertained the adverse impact of even relatively small daily pollution peaks (generally not greater that the established mean maximum daily permissible concentrations) on acute upper and deep airway responses in junior and middle schoolchildren. The principal results of the study agree with those of the studies in the West, although the latter concerned the concentrations of dust particles that are higher and vary in wider ranges than in this study. It is recommended that this methodology be widely introduced into practice in order to establish correlations between ambient air pollution and children's impaired health.
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Gigiena i sanitariia · May 2007
[Rehabilitation of the population living in poor environmental areas in the Sverdlovsk Region].
Medical rehabilitation of the population living in poor environmental areas has been realized since 1999 and is the basis for environmental safety policy in the Sverdlovsk Region, along with the prevention and reduction of environmental pollution, the rational use, conservation, and replenishment of natural complexes. Medical rehabilitation activities for the population's health are aimed at managing the risks associated with human environmental factors, managing address medical prophylactic services, individual behavioral factors, habits, and awareness of the population. Interaction of the participants of the medical rehabilitation system provides for tackling the set health promotion tasks in the Sverdlovsk Region.
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Gigiena i sanitariia · May 2007
[Development of hygienic bases for air protection in the areas of industrial enterprises: results and prospects].
The paper presents the results of developments of the scientific principles in ambient air protection in Russia and outlines the prospects of their further development. The problems associated with ambient air hygiene can be solved when public and privately owned enterprises take an active part and financially support.
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Gigiena i sanitariia · May 2007
[Estimation of the morphofunctional indices of health in children in the areas having varying technogenic environmental pollution].
The paper provides the results of a long-term study of morphofunctional health indices in children in an industrial town. In 1976-2001, there were negative changes in the children's health status, such in the parameters of physical development, in the prevalence of nervous, cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, and endocrine diseases in the area adjacent to the industrial zone of a town. The authors show it possible and expedient to use a medical and ecological questionnaire survey in the implementation of sociohygienic monitoring.
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Gigiena i sanitariia · May 2007
[Regional problems in the provision of hygienic reliability of drinking water consumption].
The paper gives the recent results of researches made at the F. F. Erisman Federal Hygiene Research Center on water-supply hygiene. It presents a functional model of comprehensive assessment of the factors determining the sanitary reliability of drinking water supply, shows the specific features of formation of conditions for water consumption in a number of regions of the Russian Federation and the risk of a water factor to human health, and substantiates the mechanism of water quality control and management at the regional level.