Hygienic environmental assessment and health of children in Penza Article file: PDF icon health-risk-analysis-2015-3-5.pdf

Assessing risks of respiratory organs diseases and co-morbid pathology in children caused by ambient air contamination with technogenic chemicals (co-hort study)

“…Prevalence of the pathology in 51 RF regions, Perm region included, was higher than in the country on average 1 . Epidemiologic research revealed that technogenic environmental factors exerted adverse impacts on population health; according to the WHO data, each third disease in a child is caused by adverse effects produced by environmental factors [4][5][6][7]. Growing emissions from motor transport and industrial enterprises result in greater ambient air contamination in large industrial centers with a mixture of chemicals that contains particulate matter, metals, aromatic hydrocarbons, formaldehyde, and other compounds [8,9].…”

“…According to numerous research works, an adverse ecological situation causes risks of health disorders among children, first of all, in the respiratory organs [4][5][6][7][11][12][13][14][15][16]. Incidence with respiratory pathologies tends to be 2.0-4.6 times higher in industrial cities; it is especially true for allergic diseases and secondary immune failures with their prevalence being by 1.5 times higher than in the country on average [4,6,7,[14][15][16][17].…”