ABSTRACT
For the purposes of the determination of reasons for the high cancer rates in the population ofthe city of Chelyabinsk there was performed the multiple environmental assessment of the carcinogenic risk from chemicals dissolved in drinking water, food, soil, air (from stationary sources). Based on this assessment there were determined the directions for sanitary and environmental measures.
Subject(s)
Environmental Exposure/prevention & control , Environmental Health/organization & administration , Environmental Illness/epidemiology , Environmental Monitoring/methods , Public Health , Risk Assessment/organization & administration , Urban Population , Humans , Incidence , Russia/epidemiologyABSTRACT
Based on the risk assessment methodology, the authors gives information on Magnitogorsk priority industrial enterprises; the chemicals contained in their emission from halation risk, which are responsible for moderare and severe risks. Negative health effects due to chronic inhalation exposure and the poorest environmental areas under observation are identified. The directions of application of the findings are specified.
