Gigiena i sanitariia
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Gigiena i sanitariia · May 2009
Comparative Study[Analysis of the late irradiation effects in the population of the north part of the East-Urals radioactive track].
Death records were used to analyze cancer mortality in the rural areas of the Kamensky District, Sverdlovsk Region, within the East-Urals radioactive track area. A study group showed a significant increase in cancer mortality as compared with a control group (65 of the 691 examinees; 90% confidence interval (CI) 18-144; the mean colonic radiation dose was 80 and 3 mGy in the study and control groups, respectively). The additional relative risk per colonic dose was 1.3 Gy(-1) (90% CI 0.36-2.9 Gy(-1)). The association of the additional relative risk with the age-related and time factors was studied and revealed.
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Gigiena i sanitariia · May 2009
Review[Hygienic characteristics of children's educational establishments].
The improved procedure for an integrated assessment of the state-of-the-art of preschool educational establishments was appraised. This procedure provides the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of each factor, the degree of its incompliance to the hygienic standards, reveals risk factors, and allows one to take operative decisions to manage a risk, which are aimed at promoting the health status in infants, and expands a sociohygienic monitoring methodology, by increasing the number of accountable objects of the vital activity medium.
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Gigiena i sanitariia · May 2009
Comparative Study[Integrated estimation of carcinogenic load on the population in the town of Aktobe].
Identification of carcinogens from the results of monitoring various environmental objects in an industrial town (Actobe) could single out 8 priority trace elements, which might cause their human accumulation. A carcinogenic risk was found to be formed due to the high ambient chromium pollution in the residential areas, to the accumulation of the elements in the deposited media and human body. Drinking water is a minor source of the identified carcinogens; therefore it may be borne in mind in the further analysis of a carcinogenic risk.
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Gigiena i sanitariia · May 2009
[Influence of ambient air pollution on children's health in Krivoĭ Rog].
The degree and nature of surface air pollution with man-made chemicals were studied in Krivoy Rog in 1996 to 2005. The priorities of pollutants were established in the area with different forms of technogenic emissions and residential areas. Immunological parameters were studied in healthy neonates and 7-10-year-old children. There was a reduction in the major immunological parameters in both healthy neonatal infants and 7-10-year-old children and a rise in pediatric morbidity.
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Gigiena i sanitariia · May 2009
Review[Hygienic education in pupils from general educational establishments].
The high prevalence of the major behavioral factors of a risk to health: violation of the study leisure regimen, violation of dietary pattern and quality, low motor activity, smoking, frequent alcohol abuse, drug taste, and deteriorated family microclimate, was revealed in middle and senior schoolchildren from Moscow, Kaliningrad, and Murmansk. Proposals are given to mold healthy lifestyle in adolescents and to optimize their hygienic education at general educational establishments.