Environment Features and Human Health in the North

PUBLIC HEALTH
Palmira G. Petrova, PhD, ScD; Natalia V. Borisova, PhD*

Medical Institute of North-Eastern Federal University named after MK Ammosov; Yakutsk, Russian Federation.

*Corresponding author:  Natalia V. Borisova, PhD.Medical Institute of North-Eastern Federal University named after MK Ammosov Yakutsk; Russian Federation. E-mail: mira_44@mail.ru

Published: June 22, 2014.

Abstract: 

There is a perspective approach to assessing the effect of environmental changes on the population health. It is quite clear that the possibility of a standardized assessment in the level of the population health in specific ecological zone, taking into account the effect of extreme environmental factors, is one of the most important conditions for the implementation of environmental impact assessment and environmental health monitoring.

Keywords: 
health; ecology; environmental factors.
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