Gigiena i sanitariia
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Gigiena i sanitariia · Sep 2009
[Hygienic assessment of priority physical factors of the urban dwelling environment].
A complex of chemical, physical, and biological factors of varying intensity influences man under the dwelling environmental conditions. Modern man spends as high as 80-90% of the day time under the conditions of the closed spaces of the urbanized habitat and is constantly exposed to physical factors. The present environmental hygiene monitoring system requires great attention to the control of priority physical factors in the environment. By using a number of examples, the authors give criteria for determining the priority of factors of physical nature and an objective assessment of their importance in the formation of the safe dwelling environment.
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Gigiena i sanitariia · Sep 2009
[Physical factors of the urban dwelling environment: ecological and hygienic aspects].
The paper describes the ecological and hygienic significance of the physical factors of the urban dwelling environment: the macroclimate of a residential area, the microclimate within the residential and public buildings, the ionic ozone regimen of premises, an electromagnetic load on the population, the problems associated with noise and light exposure. It also gives an integrated assessment of the current air-conditioning systems, household electric appliances, and building engineering systems. A system of measures is proposed to optimize the quality of the urban dwelling environment.
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Gigiena i sanitariia · Sep 2009
Comparative Study[Evaluation of the influence of physical environmental factors on morbidity among armed forces personnel].
Under the conditions of hot and mountain-continental climate, the morbidity rates were estimated to be significantly lower than those in young men who had not been acclimatized or adapted to living conditions and in non-acclimatized men. A role of individual physical environmental factors (temperature, relative humidity, barometric pressure, average and maximum air speed) and integral exposure by the wind chill index (a combined impact of an air speed and ambient temperature) as risk factors to human health was defined. The mountain-continental climate showed a relationship of the influence of these factors to habitation at different altitudes.
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The paper considers the problem while studying various physical factors of the environment. It presents prospects for further investigations of the influence of physical factors on human health and the quality of the environment. The paper also gives a detailed description of advances and promising lines of studies in the area under discussion.