Pediatric population's health in Moscow according to the data of sociohygienic monitoring
Ivanenko, A.V.; Volkova, I.F.; Kornienko, A.P.; Sudakova, E.V.; Bestuzheva, E.E.
Gigiena i Sanitariia 6: 64-66
2009
ISSN/ISBN: 0016-9900 PMID: 20143492 Document Number: 628616
Environmental pollution has a negative impact on the health status of the population, on that of children in particular. In-depth developments of primary morbidity of childhood diseases of respiratory organs as a system that is mostly exposed to ambient air pollution have indicated that respiratory diseases, including their chronic forms, are more frequently notified in the children residing in the areas characterized by high levels of air pollution. Formaldehyde and nitric dioxide, i.e. the chemical compounds the concentrations of which exceed the hygienic normal values, make the greatest contribution to risk formation. In-depth analysis of morbidity rates in the children living in the areas along which the heavy-traffic motorways pass has demonstrated that chronic respiratory diseases are more frequently registered in these children than in those residing in the areas remote from the motorways. A role of social factors influencing the increase of the so-called alimentary-dependent diseases is shown.