[Epidemiologic approaches to diagnosis of diseases dependent on ecologic factors].

The article deals with peculiarities in diagnosis of diseases caused by environmental hazards. The diagnosis covers population level and includes evaluation of environmental quality. Analysis of health for whole population and for risk groups enables to reveal "indicator" diseases.

[Method of determination of ecologically induced actual risk for human health and the degree of stress in medical and ecological situations].

Lipetsk town area was ranked according to maximal or minimal actual risk for public health (with consideration of medical and ecologic situation if influenced by technogenic hazards. That ranking enables to suggest municipal measures aimed at protection of population of ecologic hazards.

[New technologies, standard setting and department policy in the system of the state sanitary-epidemiologic surveillance].

The social and economic category "level of life" is to become a reliable and objective instrument for assessing population health, for it reflects the true income and expenditure of a territory for the state, municipal, and private consumption. A tendency to decrease of expenditures for private consumption, observed at some territories, absence of regulation of the relationships between the existing levels of the minimal salaries and survival minimum and the population health require hygienic norm-setting in the socioeconomic sphere of health protection and the relevant state surveillance of institutions of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service.

[Complex sanitary and hygienic evaluation of water supply and community health in the area of the sulfite cellulose plants].

The study provides the results of the observation of the sanitary state of water area near discharge of sewage of a sulphite cellulose plant. Sanitary, chemical, bacteriological and toxicological characteristics of water and clastic deposits in the area of water abstraction systems used for economic and drinking purposes near a large inhabited locality are presented. Impact of a water factor on community morbidity and mortality rates has been analyzed.