Analysis of some promising directions of the development of the public health risk assessment in the Russian Federation (review article)

Abstract

The population of developed and developing countries is constantly under the influence of a complex of adverse environmental factors that can negatively affect health. The Public health risk assessment is one of the strategic directions of hygiene development in the Russian Federation. Therefore, the study, improvement, and use of health risk assessment are a promising direction and the basis for effective primary prevention of environmentally related diseases in our country.
 The purpose of the work is to describe the current directions of risk assessment. 
 To achieve this goal, the systematization of legislative and methodological documents and the analysis of literary data from a number of sources were carried out. The analysis was made among the sources: «Analiz riska zdorov’yu» (Health risk Analysis), «Gigiena i sanitariya» (Hygiene and Sanitation), “Pubmed”, “eLibrary”, “Cyberleninka”, «Mezhdunarodnyj zhurnal jeksperimental’nogo obrazovanija» (International Journal of Experimental Education). The search was conducted for the keywords: “Risk assessment”, “Combined exposure”. The archive for 2018–2023 was studied in the journal “Analiz riska zdorov’yu”.
 As a result, promising areas of scientific research were identified: harmonization of terminology used in assessing health risks; development of methodological approaches to risk assessment associated with exposure to physical factors; development of methodological approaches to assessing the risk associated with the combined impact on the health of the population of adverse environmental factors of various nature; taking into account the individual sensitivity of the population; taking into account the impact of multiple uncertain factors.