title: [Assessment of health status of the population in the Northern regions (based on data from West-Yakutsk industrial region)].
abstract: There is a prevalence of chronic diseases over acute ones among adults and children who have come to Yakutia. There is a high association of inflammatory and non-inflammatory diseases and changes in the disease pattern, age, and stay duration in the North. Some common pathologic syndromes have been found to affect the development of chronic diseases. The common character of risk factors for various diseases developing in the newcomers in the North serves as the basis for establishing united programmes on their multifactorial prophylaxis whose ultimate goal is to prevent the occurrence and unfavorable course of etiologically and pathogenetically related diseases.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Shurgaia
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003081:Cold Climate; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009017:Morbidity; D016272:Occupational Health; D015995:Prevalence; D012307:Risk Factors; D012800:Siberia; D013997:Time Factors