[Hygienic regulation of environmental air pollution with consideration of epidemiological data]. / O gigienicheskoi reglamentatsii zagriazneniia atmosfernogo vozduha s uchetom épidemiologicheskikh dannykh.

The authors hold that the maximum allowable concentrations (MAC) established in Russia for some ambient air pollutants can adversely affect human health and that they are worthy of reconsideration. This opinion is based on the published results of epidemiological studies of Western investigators and on the authors' own data obtained from the analysis by the time series method for a relationship of daily variations of dust or gaseous ambient air pollution to the so-called acute mortality or for that of the variations to respiratory symptoms and to the values of the maximum expiratory flow rate in preschool with or without respiratory abnormalities in their history; from the cross analysis of an association of the characteristics of atmospheric contamination in 13 urban areas with the prevalence of chronic respiratory diseases in junior schoolchildren, which was established by a special questionnaire. Particular emphasis should be laid on the reconsideration of not only established values, but mainly on the principles in laying down MAC for dust particles. The Western practice in measuring and evaluating risks separately for fractions of particles of varying sizes should be assessed for its use in Russian conditions; however, the authors' experience argues for this practice.

[Pesticide soil pollution on the territory of the Russian Federation as a potential hazard for public health]. / Zagriaznenie pestitsidami territorii Rossiiskoi Federatsii kak potentsial'naia opasnost' dlia zdorov'ia naseleniia.

Pesticides belong to persistent pollutants and pose a potential danger to people's health. The conditions of storing and utilizing the wastes do not meet, in many cases, the sanitary-and-hygienic requirements. The control over residual pesticides in foodstuffs and in the environment is indicative, in an number of cases, of that they exceed the admissible content values. The methodical basis does not ensure, to the full extent, a quantitative analysis of pesticides. An evaluation of risk within the system of social-and-hygienic monitoring must comprise a potential danger of pesticides.

[On hygienic standards of the allowable levels of suspended particles in the air]. / K voprosu o gigienicheskom normirovanii dopustimogo soderzhaniia vzveshennykh chastits v atmosfernom vozdukhe.

Elevation of average daily concentrations of suspended particles in air, even being within the MAC, could be associated with higher mortality in general population and deteriorated respiratory symptoms in children, especially in those having chronic respiratory diseases with bronchial obstruction. Discussion on reduction of MAC for suspended particles is expendient with wider practice of fraction measurement their concentrations.

[Characteristics of actual nutrition and health of children in regions of the Russian Federation]. / Kharakteristika fakticheskogo pitaniia i zdorov'ia detei v regionakh Rossiiskoi Federatsii.

In the article the problems of actual nutrition and state of Russian children health are considered. The carried out examinations of the vitaminous status have shown presence of a deficit of vitamins E, B1, B6, PP, and also calcium, phosphorus, iron lactate, zinc in daily ration of children. The inadequate organization of C-vitaminization of boiled food in children establishments, low supplying of learning schools by a hot food, insufficient use of products from suer milk, fish, juices, meat products, butter, vegetables, fruit, eggs in a nutrition of children is marked. In same of regions of Russia the inadequate nutrition organization of early age children is marked. The positive experience of areas (St.-Petersburg, Ul'yanovsk, Rostov, Smolensk, Kirov, Kurgan, Samara region, Republic Buryatiya) on organization of children and juveniles nutrition, development of the regional programs on a children's food industry evolution, on providing of early age children by food stuffs, on improvement of a schoolboys nutrition, on improvement a nutrition of children in children's preschool establishments is analyzed. The positive experience of nutrition organization of children on an example of the Ryazan and Arkhangel'sk regions surveyed. The actual information about a vitaminization, quality and safety of children's nutrition, ready dishes in the organized collectives on data of 1999 are given.

[The epidemiological characteristics of cholera in the Republic of Dagestan. An assessment of the epidemic-control measures]. / Epidemiologicheskie osobennosti kholery v Respublike Dagestan. Otsenka nekotorykh protivoépidemicheskikh meropriiatii.

Retrospective analysis of epidemic cholera manifestations was made in Daghestan using the data of operative epidemic analysis of the break in 1994. Unexpected prolongation of epidemic process of cholera for Daghestan, which was imported by pilgrims from Southern-Western Asia, has been shown using climate-geographical social-demographical and sanitary-hygienic peculiarities. Common laws of development of epidemic complications were demonstrated, as well as the main ways of infection transmission of great number of Daghestan settlements in epidemic process. The importance of antiepidemic means and significant role of created specialized antiepidemic groups have been emphasized in rapid carrying out of means in infection focus, including massive investigation of people in settlements.