[Use of geographic information systems in the evaluation of medical and ecological situation in a city]. / Ispol'zovanie geograficheskikh informatsionnykh sistem dlia otsenki mediko-ékologicheskoi situatsii v gorode.

Study using geoinformational technology provides integrity and compatibility of diverse information about territories, determines "cause-effect" relationships between environmental pollution parameters and some health state parameters. Intensive technogenic pollution with cadmium, zinc, mercury, copper, chromium, lead, benzpyrene, radionuclides could be assessed through data of ecologic and social hygienic monitoring and results of research works.

[New technologies, standard setting and department policy in the system of the state sanitary-epidemiologic surveillance]. / Novye tekhnologii, normirovanie i kadrovaia politika v sisteme gosudarstvennogo sanitarno-épidemiologicheskogo nadzora.

The social and economic category "level of life" is to become a reliable and objective instrument for assessing population health, for it reflects the true income and expenditure of a territory for the state, municipal, and private consumption. A tendency to decrease of expenditures for private consumption, observed at some territories, absence of regulation of the relationships between the existing levels of the minimal salaries and survival minimum and the population health require hygienic norm-setting in the socioeconomic sphere of health protection and the relevant state surveillance of institutions of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service.