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

Behavioral Health

Increasingly major significance is acquired by the problem of industrial developing of the North and Siberia of Russia and involvement for these purposes of newcomers. Extreme cli-mate-geographical factors, contrast change of conditions of life lead both to reconstruction of homeostatic systems of the organism and to mental disadaptation

In report materials of examination of 1169 persons of able-bodied population of northern town of Tomsk District, Strezhevoy, have been presented. With interviewing clinical syndromes of secondary immune deficiency (SID) and signs of mental health disturbance (SMHD) were re-vealed.

SID risk group was entered by 39% of persons out of the total number of the examined, with a major frequency, infectious, allergic and infectious-allergic syndromes of SID have been revealed. SID in persons arrived in Strezhevoy from Middle Asia, Caucasus, south of Russia were found 1,5-2 times more often than in persons arrived from Tomsk District and other dis-tricts of Siberia. In 17,7% of the examined, SMHD of various degree of the severity have been revealed.

Close interrelationship between level of mental health and state of immune homeostasis has been established: in the total group of the examined SID syndromes have been found in 39% of persons, in the group with SMHD – in 71% of cases. The greatest disturbances of the immu-nity were typical with somatogenically conditioned by neurotic disorders and with lingering course of psychoadaptive syndrome.

Thus, broad prevalence of immune deficiency has been established urban population of the north of Siberia; a close interrelationship between SID syndromes and signs of SMHD have been revealed, association of severity of immune dysfunction and mental disadaptation has been established.

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