title: [Methods of medical geography in the study of the effects of urban factors on the health of the population].
abstract: A possible approach to the medico-geographical study of the urban environment has been proposed by the medical geographers of the Institute of Geography of the USSR Academy of Sciences in conjunction with the international research on areas 1.2 and 1.3 of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance. The approach comprised a non-economic assessment of the negative changes in the quality of urban environment under the effect of economic activity. The concept of the territorial anthropological-ecological system (TAES) was a theoretical prerequisite to its application. Elaboration of the method to evaluate the adverse effects of man on the urban environment according to the health criterion included development of evaluation algorithm, special questionnaire for interviewing the population, data processing, and result interpretation. The method elaborated for the towns of the Kursk model region was tested during the assessment of changes in the atmospheric air quality under the industrial and transport influences.
authors.forename: E L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Raĭkh
authors.forename: L V
authors.initials: LV
authors.lastname: Maksimova
mesh_terms: D000397:Air Pollution / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000517:prevention & control; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D005843:Geography; D006801:Humans; D009017:Morbidity; D014586:USSR; D014504:Urban Health / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends; D014506:Urban Renewal
vernacular_title: Metody meditsinskoĭ geografii v izuchenii vliianiia goroda na zdoro've naseleniia.