International Union for Circumpolar Health Ministry of Public Health and Social Development of RF Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences Medical Polar Fund “Science” The Northern Forum

Abstracts

Environmental health

Jnsufficient understanding the contemporary social-ecological health problems and children,s development in different regions calls for performing special studies in this field. The studies of the peculiarities in forming the indices of physical development, morbidity, pathological disorders, children,s and teen-agers, mortality in connection with the conditions of vital activity have been performed in an industrial town of Baikal region (Angarsk).

Jndex dynamics of general morbidity among the children and teen-agers in this town was characterized with an intensive growth during the period from 1991 to 2004.

Morphofunctional deviations have been revealed in 70% of pre-school children and in 36.8% of teen-agers (13-16 years old); chronic diseases in 24.0 and 61.0%, respectively. Physical development disorders have been observed in 31% of pre-school children and in 36.5% of teen-agers. Organism contents of essential micro(macro)-elements (Zn, Cu, Mg, Ca) was decreased in the teen-agers of III health group as well as in the persons in the group of social trouble.

A pronounced growth of mortality rate has been noted in the cohorts of teen-agers and young people (15-19 years old) during ,90s and early 2000 by 104-108% including the youths – by 130-140%, the girls by 60-70%.

Thereto, 68.9% of mortality among the youths and 57.5% of the girls were induced with traumas and intoxications. A mean growth tempo of mortality rate was 2.1 times higher among the youths than those among the girls.

Mortality rates among the teen-agers from the violent causes were higher than mortality rates connected with suicide which indicate a high aggression degree of social encirclement and psychosocial trouble.

The following leading risk factors (a high intensivity) of forming pathology: medical-biological factors (pathologies in pregnant women, the women in child-birth, fetus and new-borns) at the pre-school age; unfavourable social-economic factors (a low life level and nutrition quality, psychological trouble, informative pressing and so on) at the teen-ager age. Technogenic pollution of urban environment, increased negative effects of medical-biological, social factors as well as a poor development of compensation processes and adaptation may be considered as the risk factor of a low and mild intensity.

So, a combined exposure to vigorous natural factors, technogenic load, accutely aggravated social-economic and psychosocial problems have created unfavourable conditions to organism development and resulted in considerable worsening health state among the children and especially among the teen-agers in the industrial town of Baikal region during ,90s and early 2000.

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