[The health status of junior schoolchildren in an area adjacent to ironworks].

The paper gives the results of monitoring the ambient air pollution by chemicals, the sedimentation of atmospheric pollutants on the snow blanket in the area where the public corporation "Nizhnetagilsky Metallurgicheskiy Kombinat" (Nizhni-Tagil Metallurgic Works), one of the largest ironworks, is located. Morbidity was studied in junior schoolchildren by the results of medical examinations. Morbidity with temporary disability was also examined within 3 years of the study. Data on the urinary levels of benz(a)pyrene are presented in the paper. The findings are indicative of the aerogenic risk to the schoolchildren's health and the necessity of implanting nature conservation measures.

[Efficiency of biotesting as a rapid method for assessing the hazard of environment pollution to human health].

The paper provides the results of studies, which lend support to the efficiency of rapid biotesting methods in the estimation of hazards to human health.

[Dynamic morbidity of children as a evaluation criterion for renovation of aluminum manufacturing industries]. / Dinamika zabolevaemosti detskogo naseleniia kak kriterii neobkhodimosti rekonstruktsii aliuminievykh zavodov.

Negative pollution effects from atmospheric discharges by aluminium facilities exerted on population health can be traced by the parameters of the reproductive function in women, physical development of newborns, general and differential morbidity of children aged below one year as well as by anthropometric signs in birth, morbidity of children and adults, mortality, including due to oncology. The introduction of modern technologies including the preliminarily fire anode treatment and the use of highly effective methods of purification of industrial wastes cut the concentration (in atmospheric air) of anhydrous hydrogen fluoride and of solid fluorides as well as of aluminium to maximum permissible concentration; it also essentially reduced the content of benzapilene. A better atmospheric air observed yet in the course of renovation contributed to a lower morbidity of children, aged below one year, as well as to the prevalence of diseases affecting the eyes, respiratory and digestive organs, skin and subcutaneous cellular tissue; it also cuts the number of congenital anomalies versus the data obtained in a neighboring district.