title: The questions of organization and software in the "Environment-health of the Ukrainian Population" monitoring.
abstract: The dependence of health provision on environmental quality is evident. The scientists of Ukraine have accumulated material regarding the population health level; state control of atmospheric air and the water basin was carried out for many years. However the dependence of health provision on the environment was revealed only in some quantity of ecological-population investigations; the results were not very self-evident. All these reasons stipulated the necessity of organized state control and analysis of information systems on environmental and population health functioning, on a single methodological, technical, and program scheme. From an economical point of view, this system presupposes three levels of information processing: 1) city and countryside, 2) region, and 3) the state as a whole. It is advisable, on each level, to input the information of different periodicity receivings (frequently on the low levels and rarely on the upper ones, but the unification structure of assumed data, its primary statistical processing and using software). Taking into account existing but now insufficient professional level of the system users on low level, the program product must provide the information qualitative processing and receiving of result analyze by the user at the minimum of intellectual expenditures. ThatUs why the software must have a very easy interface, defense from mistakes at the input of inadequate information, dialogical stepped style of communication, developed help system, prompts, commentarie , references. The results must be presented not only in the forms of mathematical tables and numerical meanings, but in the form of graphs and diagrams in two- and three- dimensional realization; the disposal of the results on press must be facilitated. The software must provide the data input with a simple but developed request system, various mathematical processing, forming of resulting report forms in standard form. As a result of logic, mathematical and graphical analysis computer must answer the following questions which are of interest to direct system users as well as to administration responsible for sanitation and optimization of the environment and population health protection, that is: what is the structure of the environment in the analyzed region, what factors have the larger expressiveness; what is the structure of population health (structure of disease incidence) of different age groups; what environmental factors and health indices are important for the further investigations; does the correlation exist between the environmental factors, do they form the clusters; does the correlation exist between the population health indices; what is their comparative informativeness; are there appropriateness in the expressiveness of separate environmental factors and health indices in dynamics; what is the dependence of health indices from the environmental factors at their separate and complex effect; what is the part of contribution of all analyzing factors in a whole to the population health change; what is the contribution of each of this factor; what is the prognosis of the environmental changes on each factor and level of health on each indices; what are the critical factor levels, that are the levels at which the non degradation (subthreshold) of health is guaranteed and at which this health degradation reliably takes place (threshold). Software satisfying all these demands and carrying out all functions mentioned above has been worked out with our participation and has been approved in different regions of Ukraine. We are planning the utilization of this software as the main one in organizing in Ukraine of medico-ecological monitoring system.
authors.affiliation: Ukrainian Scientific Center of Hygiene, Kiev.
authors.forename: M Y
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Antomonov
mesh_terms: D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D012984:Software; D014455:Ukraine