The Impact of Space Weather on Human Health

Abstract

Human health depends on endogenous as well as exogenous factors. Endogenous factors are e.g. the type of nutrition we provide

The Space and Terrestrial Weather Variations as Possible Factors for Ischemia Events in Saint Petersburg

“…We are glad that our investigation with the unprejudiced selection of the environmental parameters shows the significance of the geomagnetic field variations of ischemic people. This fact proves the correctness of other research works [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] and adds new features to the investigation of the geomagnetic effects on human life.…”

“…Modern works in this field consider different aspects of such an impact. The significant part of these works carefully investigates the geomagnetic impact on the biosphere, which includes, of course, the human organism [6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. The information from the authors of the works mentioned above is important for the understanding of the mechanisms of the human body's reaction to geomagnetic disturbances.…”

“…Additionally, there are interesting results of the psychological investigation [10,12] in the circumstances of the geomagnetic disturbances. Different works show the direction for the special investigation of the cosmic ray's impact on the living organism; that impact is mediated by the ionosphere disturbances and the atmosphere electricity disturbances [7,[13][14][15][16][17][18][19]. One should note the wide range of modern investigations-from the global impact of lunar phases [20] on the human organism to precise laboratory experiments of manmade physical fields (mostly electromagnetic field); those simulate natural physical fields and the impact of them on the different human organism points [18].…”

“…It should be taken into account the fact that different environmental parameters have their own intervals of stable existence of the behavioral features (for example, approximately 27/2 days for the solar parameters, approximately 5-7 days for atmospheric pressure parameters, etc.) (7) The next mistake is to not detect the connection between environment variations and variations in the state of the human body if there is a time shift in the manifestation of the effect of such a connection (for example, changes in the environmental parameter do not occur on the day of changes in the state of the human body but before that day). Such discrepancies may be explained by the delay in the human reaction to changes in weather conditions (investigated in our study).…”

“…Actually, the searching for such conditions is the main task of the entire study. (7) In order to avoid errors in paragraphs 1, 2 and 4, we conduct a study of holistic complexes of environmental parameters (a complete set of all environmental characteristics included in the study-Weather Complexes) corresponding to certain holistic clinical outcomes (that are understood in this work as the result of specific changes in the human body, such as the presence or absence of the ischemia case). ( 8) The working scheme of the representation of the natural environment (meteorological and helio-geophysical factors) is focused on the structure of the solar-terrestrial relations, which is based on the position of natural phenomena in space relative to the investigation object on the Earth's surface-the human person: Based on the proposed scheme, the structure of the studied complex of environmental factors is formed.…”