[Actual problems of the impact of production and management of industrial waste on the environment and public health (review of literature)].

In the modern society the importance and applicability of the problem concerning the negative effect of production and consumption waste on the objects of the environment and the state sa people's health is related to their daily emergency, large tonnage, storage, and utilization. Wastes and places of their storage and waste burial constitute an toxicological and epidemiological risk. Chemical and biological contamination of solid waste is a threat to its penetration into the soil, air, groundwater and surface water bodies, vegetation, directly or indirectly, cause variations in health status of the population.

[Heavy metal content of the hair of children in industrial cities]. / Soderzhanie tiazhelykh metalov v volosakh detei v promyshlennom gorode.

Heavy metals are most common pollutants in large industrial cities. Differences were first shown in the distribution of concentrations of toxic and biogenic heavy metals in the hair of children. Zinc and copper had dispersion close to normal values, whereas lead, cadmium, and nickel had asymmetric dispersion. Scales were first developed for rating the levels of heavy metals in the children's hair in cities. A typology of microareas was also first developed by the level of metal pollution. The permanent stay of children in the highly polluted areas causes a high accumulation of lead in the hair and it is a risk factor of morphofunctional abnormalities and chronic diseases.