PubMed2003
The article deals with the scientific as well as ecological-and-hygienic foundations of shaping the dwelling environment; it focuses on the real, total loads of the chemical, physical and biological factors experienced by the man under the conditions of the urban residential environment in Moscow. The risk factors, which are present in the residential environment, are investigated alongside with positive factors. A concept of the social-and-hygienic monitoring, which is to be a scientific basis for working out a comprehensive program of the optimization of the population habitation conditions and of ensuring the healthy life mode, is offered. This makes it possible to promote the preventive and current sanitary supervision over the structure and maintenance of living quarters and to ensure a new qualitative level for such supervision involving a quantitative assessment of the whole range of both positive and negative factors of the habitant environment; it is important for determining the housing quality and its safety for the population health.
Adaptation, Physiological↗