[Dependence of medical rehabilitation effectiveness of patients with somatic diseases and meteopathology on features of weather-forming factors of the Moscow region].

Unlabelled: Climate change and formation of regional weather features increase both direct (immediate effects of extremal temperature and other weather and climatic anomalies) and indirect (environmental deterioration, etc.) consequences of global climate change. The development of investigations of medical weather assessment, medical and meteorological forecasting system, the use of treatment and preventive measures give the opportunity to prepare for weather biotropic conditions and reduce weather-conditioned exacerbations.

[Meteocorrective effect of physical and balneal factors in patients with joint diseases].

Unlabelled: The environment has the potential to adversely affect human health. Among the variety of adverse factors, one of the leading is the weather, including its abnormal patterns, helio- and geomagnetic disturbances, and extreme hydrometeorological phenomena. Currently, the study of mechanisms of weather and climate factors impacting sick and healthy organisms is warranted by the need to determine the main clinical types of meteotropic (pathological) reactions and development of scientific-based programs for their prevention and treatment with the use of non-drug methods.

[Modern medical and meteorological assessment of Moscow weather and the effectiveness of non-drug methods of increased meteosensitivity correction in patients with joint diseases].

Unlabelled: Weather is one of the leading negatively acting on the human body factors. Abnormal regimes and extreme hydrometeorological and geophysical phenomena form the most biotropic external conditions that can have a negative effect and provoke weather-related exacerbations in people with chronic non-infectious diseases. Today, the problem of the climatic and weather factors influence acquires a new content and becomes relevant in connection with the global climate change and its regional manifestations.

[The role of climatic therapy in the combined spa and health resort-based treatment of the patients presenting with nonspecific respiratory diseases].

This article deals with the issues related to the role of climatic therapy in the combined spa and health resort-based treatment of the patients presenting with pathology of the respiratory system. The characteristics of climatic health resorts, the effects of various weather factors on the patients with nonspecific diseases of the respiratory organs, and the methods of climatic therapy are discussed with special reference to the physical factors influencing acclimatization and re-acclimatization as well as the prevention of meteopathic reactions. Much attention is given to the indications and contraindications for the referral of the patients with the above health problems to the local spa and health resorts facilities.

[The influence of the climatic and weather conditions on the mechanisms underlying the formation of enhanced meteosensitivity (a literature review)].

The present review concerns the problem of the influence of the climatic conditions on the human body, the creation of the medical weather forecast service, the development of non-pharmacological methods for the correction of meteopathic disorders, and the reduction of the risk of the complications provoked by the unfavourable weather conditions. The literature data are used to analyse the influence of climatic and weather factors on the formation of enhanced meteosensitivity and the development of exacerbations of chronic non-communicable diseases under the influence of weather conditions. It is concluded that marked changes of the weather may lead to an increased frequency of exacerbations of the chronic non-communicable diseases.