Gigiena i sanitariia
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Gigiena i sanitariia · May 2011
Comparative Study[Assessment of the health status of a population living in the catchment area of the Kuĭbyshev water reservoir].
An analysis of trends in primary morbidity in the regions belonging to the catchment area of the Kuibyshev water reservoir within the Republic of Tatarstan has shown its rise in the examined classes of diseases. There is the highest increase in morbidity in the areas located in the river basins of Kama, Sviyaga, Kazanka, Mesha, which are the main tributaries of the Kuibyshev water reservoir in the Republic of Tatarstan. The cumulative hazard index in the assessment of a noncancer risk to the health of the population consuming the portable water and fish from the Kuibyshev reservoir is 0.34, which suggests that there is no serious hazard to human health. With oral intake of lead and cadmium, the cancer risk corresponds to the maximum acceptable value.
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Gigiena i sanitariia · May 2011
[Economic evaluation and rationale for human health risk management decisions].
The priority task of human health maintenance and improvement is risk management using the new economic concepts based on the assessment of potential and real human risks from exposure to poor environmental factors and on the estimation of cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness ratios. The application of economic tools to manage a human risk makes it possible to assess various measures both as a whole and their individual priority areas, to rank different scenarios in terms of their effectiveness, to estimate costs per unit of risk reduction and benefit increase (damage decrease).