ECOLOGICAL STATE OF THE TERRITORY AND ASSESSMENT OF ECONOMIC DAMAGE CAUSED BY ENVIRONMENTALLY DEPENDENT MORBIDITY UNDER CONDITIONS OF HIGH TECHNOGENIC LOAD
Natural and climatic conditions and anthropogenic load determine the ecological state of the environment, as well as the health of the population living on this territory. The most critical situation has developed in cities, where air pollution plays a decisive role. In this regard, a comprehensive assessment of the impact of technogenic pollution on ecosystems, the development of methods and means of environmental monitoring, the study and assessment of the influence of abiotic factors and the resistance of organisms to technogenic impacts become relevant. The objective of the study was to identify the degree of anthropogenic pollution of the atmosphere and to assess the economic damage to the health of the population of an industrial region. Scientific novelty: a comprehensive environmental and hygienic assessment of the urbanized area was carried out from 2008 to 2017, including the degree of atmospheric air pollution, hygienic assessment of health risks, a comprehensive assessment of the health status of the population, economic calculation of some types of environmentally caused morbidity. Priority air pollutants include: magnesium, ammonia, iron, cadmium, manganese, copper, arsenic, nitrates, mercury, lead, and chlorides. During the study, the following methods were used: assessment of atmospheric air pollution from stationary sources; the degree of atmospheric air pollution was assessed by a complex conditional indicator (P) of atmospheric air pollution and a complex (K) indicator of atmospheric air pollution; the state of health of the population was assessed on the basis of the general and newly diagnosed morbidity of children, adolescents and adults, to calculate the environmental and economic damage from the morbidity of the population - a method for assessing the economic damage from the incidence of the population. The consequences of environmentally caused morbidity, disability and supermortality of the population, as well as temporary disability have an economic aspect. A full-fledged study of the interaction between public health and the economy of the region requires an objective assessment of economic costs, in connection with which we assessed the calculation of economic damage in the study area.