title: [Ecological hygiene--a science of global health].
abstract: The paper defines ecological hygiene, a science that combines a preventive trend and comprehensive ecological analysis of man-made changes occurring in the biosphere. Ecological hygiene may be regarded as a science of global human health in relation to ecological situations, of modes of its maintenance, promotion, and improvement. As for its application, ecological hygiene may be determined as a complex of medical preventive research subjects whose purpose is to maintain and promote health by preventing diseases and premature aging. To apply this approach, ecological hygiene studies the environment and its influence on the human body, reveals unfavourable environmental factors and defines the maximum acceptable levels of their influence, works out recommendation how to eliminate unfavourable factors and how to rationally apply useful ones.
authors.forename: G I
authors.initials: GI
authors.lastname: Sidorenko
authors.forename: M P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Zakharchenko
authors.forename: N F
authors.initials: NF
authors.lastname: Koshelev
mesh_terms: D004463:Ecology; D004782:Environmental Health; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D016272:Occupational Health; D012106:Research
vernacular_title: Ekogigiena--nauka o planetarnom zdorov'e.