Population morbidity in the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant observation zone as an integral part of public health. / STAN ZAKhVORIuVANOSTI NASELENNIa ZONY SPOSTEREZhENNIa ZAPORIZ'KOÏ ATOMNOÏ ELEKTROSTANTsIÏ IaK SKLADOVA GROMADS'KOGO ZDOROV'Ia.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the health status of adult population living in the Ukrainian nuclear power industry obser vation zone on the example of Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. MATERIALS AND METHODS: System review, analytic, sociological survey and statistical methods. RESULTS: There was established an increase in the incidence of digestive diseases among adult population in Nikopol of Dnipropetrovsk region, which is included in the Zaporizhzhia NPP observation zone. The highest increase was observed in the incidence of peptic ulcer, gastritis and duodenitis, cholecystitis and cholangitis by 340 %, 305 % and 83 %, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: In connection with the residence in industrially developed region and NPP life extension in Ukraine, the possible influence of harmful factors on health status of the population of observation zones, an increase in the incidence of digestive diseases among adult population, there is required continuous monitoring and detailed study of public health.

[Influence of the consumption of radioactive contaminated food on the formation of the irradiation levels and health of the inhabitants of radioactive contaminated regions of Ukraine].

Within all these years after the Chernobyl disaster the population of contaminated areas of the Rivne region was shown to consume radioactive contaminated foodstuffs. The main components of the formation of the internal irradiation of the population in them were and remain locally sourced milk and meat, forest mushrooms and berries. After 1991, the largest annual internal doses in persons observed in 1997 varied from 2,2 to 1,45 mSv/year and in 2011--in the inhabitants of the village of El'no they were yet reaching 1.43 mSv/year. After 2003, exposure levels in most inhabitatants of affected areas exceeded the criterion specified by national legislation for residents of the tightened radioecological control zone (0,5 mSv/year). The long-term residence in the contaminated area, elevated levels of chronic internal exposure, lack of radioactively sound foodstuffs and involuntary consumption in 1987-2011 radioactively contaminated food of local production were noted to led to an increase in general morbidity, and incidence of endocrine diseases rate and their separate nosological forms.

[Hygienic evaluation of electrolysis oxygen obtained from the water of different chemical composition]. / Gigienicheskaia otsenka élektroliznogo kisloroda, poluchennogo iz vody razlichnogo khimicheskogo sostava.

Influence of electrolysis gaseous oxygen (EGO) mixed with nitrogen (1:4) on the living organism was studied in a 30-day 24-hour experiment on guinea pigs. A preliminary conclusion states, that EGO, obtained in the system with a solid polymeric electrolyte out of moist materials of different chemical composition, can be recommended for the formation of artificial gas atmosphere in hermetic objects in the mixture with gaseous nitrogen in the ratio 1:4.

[The hygienic regulation of the irradiation of the population at the rehabilitative stage of eliminating the sequelae from the accident at the Chernobyl Atomic Electric Power Station]. / O gigienicheskom reglamentirovanii oblucheniia naseleniia na vosstanovitel'nom étape likvidatsii posledstvii avarii na Chernobyl'skoi AES.

The National Commission on Radiation Defense (NCRD) of the USSR Health Ministry proposed standard values--maximum limit of life dose for the population equalling 35 ber per 70 years. Despite the seeming accordance of this value to NCRD recommendations according to which the equivalent dose of irradiation of a limited part of the population should not exceed 0.5 ber yearly, the NCRD does not take into consideration the irregular character of radiation. Numerous data from the literature are presented on the presence of some nonstochastic and stochastic effects even in such comparatively low doses showing the impossibility of acceptance of such standard values.