[Medicoecological studies in the assessment of biogeochemical province in the area of a toxic waste ground]

Gig Sanit. 2007 Nov-Dec:(6):50-2.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

The paper presents the results of complex sanitary-and-epidemiological, toxicological-and-hygienic, and medical diagnostic studies of health and the environment, by taking into account the activity of a toxic industrial waste ground. Toxic waste burning on primitive unfiltered apparatuses was shown to lead to the formation of a biogeochemical province that is characterized by pollution of soil, bottom sediment, subsoil well water and snow with heavy metals, the components of toxic waste. Burning of waste and its storage in the open trenches resulted in ambient air pollution with organic solvents, nitric oxide and sulfur oxide had a negative impact on the health of children living at a distance of 3 km from the ground.

MeSH terms

  • Catchment Area, Health
  • Ecology*
  • Environmental Illness / epidemiology*
  • Environmental Pollution*
  • Hazardous Waste*
  • Humans
  • Russia / epidemiology

Substances

  • Hazardous Waste