Gigiena i sanitariia
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Gigiena i sanitariia · Jul 2003
[Effect of plant protective chemicals on the environment and human health].
The developed and promoted package of ecological and hygienic measures and the specific programme introduced by the State Sanitary-and-Epidemiological Surveillance Committee have yielded positive results in sanitizing the Yakhroma flood land, approaches to rationally managing the medical and sanitary situation. The implemented measures are a preparatory stage of introduction of the assessment of a health risk in hygienic monitoring.
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Nonspecific resistance and the incidence of allergic diseases were studied in children living in areas with varying ambient air pollution, whose parents were exposed before conception to deleterious occupational factors at chemical and petrochemical enterprises. Nonspecific resistance was found to reduce drastically in children of female workers of chemical and petrochemical enterprises. In the children of female workers of the above enterprises, the incidence of allergic diseases was significantly higher (p < 0.01) than that in the control group. The findings suggest that environmental factors (ambient air pollution, occupational harms in parents) exert a substantial influence on a rise in the incidence of allergic diseases in children.