GEOCHEMICAL ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE ZABAYKALYE REGION
Given review considers the conditions and reasons of natural and anthropogenic geochemical anomalies on the region territory. The attention is also given to the research of endemic pathology in the region. On basis of great number of literary sources the analysis of the formation of conditions dependent on natural geochemical peculiarities of the territory was carried out. The characteristics of such diseases as hypothyroidism, fluorosis, selenium-deficient microelementosis, Kashin–Beck disease are given in the article. It is mentioned, that the key reason for geochemical environment degradation in the region is the development and exploitation of mineral deposits. During more than 300 years of mining complex activity in Transbakalia the systems of technogenic landscapes, which are characterized by newly-formed geochemical anomalies of toxic elements that cause the negative impact on the environment and population health were formed.