[The mental and neurological health status of the pediatric population in some regions of Ukraine after the accident at the Chernobyl Atomic Electric Power Station].

Psychic, neurological and speech characteristics were studied in a comparative epidemiological survey of 910 schoolchildren aged 6-7 and 11-12. Of them 470 children lived in the Zhitomir region which had suffered radioactive contamination after the Chernobyl accident, 440 children lived in the Kharkov region which had not been exposed to radionuclide contamination. It was established that 74-79% of the children examined had borderline psychic, neurological or speech disorders. The children from the "clear" territories had more serious disturbances which say about the role of other ecological hazards in development of large-scale prevalence of borderline neuropsychic pediatric conditions. The radiation-exposed children received adequate treatment which produced positive shifts in their health.