Evaluation of the influence of physical environmental factors on morbidity among armed forces personnel
Rakhmanov, R.S.; Gadzhiibragimov, D.A.; Medzhidova, M.A.; Kudriavtseva, O.A.
Gigiena i Sanitariia 2009(5): 90-91
2009
ISSN/ISBN: 0016-9900 PMID: 20000099 Document Number: 630352
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.