Improvement of social and hygienic monitoring system based on inter-regional analysis of morbidity (on example of North-Caucasian Federal District)

Abstract

At the present stage, carrying out laboratory monitoring of the presence and concentrations of all known harmful chemicals within the framework of socio-hygienic monitoring is technically impossible, due to their extremely large number. At the same time, for most chemical compounds and elements, the nature and degree of their impact on human health, as well as the pathologies caused by them, have been scientifically established [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]. The so-called ecologically dependent diseases are most determined with environmental quality parameters [11]. The paper presents the results of the use of an inter-regional comparative analysis of the incidence of the child population by individual environmentally dependent pathologies, which makes it possible to identify priority classes of diseases and nosological forms for the region, the occurrence and development of which is caused by air pollution. Considering the nature of the incidence of these pathological conditions as an indicator of the possible presence of harmful substances in the atmospheric air, this approach can be used to compile a list of priority pollutants to be controlled in a particular region, which will increase the reliability of assessing the quality of the air environment in the framework of social and hygienic monitoring.