[Complex characterization of the influence of environmental factors and social conditions on population health]

Vestn Ross Akad Med Nauk. 2006:(5):12-5.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

The study determined the overall contribution of atmospheric air pollution and socioeconomic and other factors on population health, as well as the role of medical providence in the lowering of population morbidity. The study shows that different individual factors of medical providence have different effects on medicodemographic situation. Also different is the significance of various characteristics of socioeconomic conditions. The results demonstrate that the contribution of air pollutants and their mixtures into male and female mortality in various age groups is different and depends on the cause of death and pathogenetic peculiarities of the action of the components.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Air Pollutants / adverse effects*
  • Environmental Illness / epidemiology*
  • Environmental Illness / etiology
  • Female
  • Health Status*
  • Humans
  • Incidence
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Population Surveillance*
  • Russia
  • Sex Factors
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • Survival Rate / trends
  • Urban Population

Substances

  • Air Pollutants