THE ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS AND SOCIALLY SIGNIFICANT DISEASES OF POPULATION OF THE FAR EASTERN REGION OF RUSSIA
The influence of a complex of environmental factors (natural, ecological, social and economic), forming regional features of pathology on a group of socially significant diseases of the population of the Far East of Russia has been studied. In the group of socially significant diseases include HIV, syphilis, gonorrhea, mental illness, diabetes, malignant neoplasms, hypertension, alcoholism. The correlations between factors of environment and levels of diseases have been investigated. The different actual degree of parallelism between the individual environmental factors and regional indexes of diseases of population has been shown. The determined statistical correlations have been analyzed. The main groups of external factors which have a hypothetical influence on the formation of separate socially significant diseases have been identified.