title: Health condition of Siberian population (medical ecological analysis).
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of the investigation is to show, with the help of various scientific approaches, the Siberian population's state of health for the last years.
  
  
  METHODS
  On the basis of results of a large cycle of population investigations of people in different zones of Siberia--shift workers, inhabitants of ecologically adverse regions, schoolchildren in sensitive periods of development--we discovered disorders of adaptive processes that are accompanied by a decrease of mental stability, readjustment of physiological regulation mechanisms and exhaustion of functional reserves of the organism.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The significant changes registered everywhere of the condition of health of the adult and children population in the centres of ecological risk and trouble call more and more urgently for considering the condition of health an economic category, and the quality of health of the population a limiting factor of the strategy of social-economic development of the territories of Siberia.
authors.affiliation: Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Medical Science.
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Truafkin
authors.forename: S G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Krivoschekov
mesh_terms: D004463:Ecology; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D012800:Siberia / Q000453:epidemiology