Gigiena i sanitariia
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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
[Inhalation risk upon exposure to emission from industrial enterprises in the town of Magnitogorsk].
Based on the risk assessment methodology, the authors gives information on Magnitogorsk priority industrial enterprises; the chemicals contained in their emission from halation risk, which are responsible for moderare and severe risks. Negative health effects due to chronic inhalation exposure and the poorest environmental areas under observation are identified. The directions of application of the findings are specified.