[Development of social and hygienic monitoring at the regional level].

The system of the environment and health monitoring system has been introduced into the work of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service of the Lipetsk region in 1995. During this period, there was created a database for the collection of regional information on the quality and safety of the environment and public health. Methodology of the analysis is based on an assessment of the habitat on the total rank sanitary and hygiene index of the risk assessment to public health. The established relationships between adverse impacts of environmental factors on health are supported by statistical methods and are visualized in the form of cartograms. The results of multivariate analysis of the environment and the state of public health are summarized in the annual reports and 4 atlases “Sanitary-epidemiological situation in the Lipetsk region” being a good tool for the coordination of managerial decision-making basis for the development of legislative, administrative and regulatory guidance documents on public health. In recent years, in the region there are noted stable trends in the improvement of the quality of the environment, the health of the population and the demographic situation.