Current issues in ensuring the sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the Russian Arctic population

Abstract

The Social Hygienic Monitoring (SGM), being the tools to ensure the sanitary and epidemiological well-being, currently does not allow to fully identify the causal relationships of environmental factors and public health. There are imperfections in the organization and conduct of the SGM, which are characteristic both in the whole country and specifically in the territories of the Russian Arctic.The researchers of North-West Public Health Research Center (NWPHRC) assessed the sanitary and epidemiological situation of the Russian Arctic for 11 years using GIS and spatial analysis methods, which simplified the identification of territories and risk indicators, as well as management decisions.At present, research work is being conducted on the creation and development of a geoportal of sanitary and epidemiological well-being in the Russian Arctic using GIS technologies and space (remote) sensing tools.he SGM currently needs to be improved. It is necessary to develop it at the interregional level using modern methods of collecting, analyzing, processing, evaluating and visualizing indicators of the sanitary and epidemiological well-being in the Russian Arctic. The authors formulated the objectives that need to be addressed in the field of sanitary and epidemiological well-being in the Russian Arctic.