title: [Assessment of a risk to health as a way of reducing congenital and hereditary pathology in children].
abstract: Based on the data available in the literature and his own findings, the author determines the urgency of study of environment-dependent diseases in a poor ecological area. The analytical survey presents data available about the ecological situation in the town of Omsk, a center of chemical and oil-refining industries of Western Siberia from 1997 to 2003. Particular emphasis is laid on a child's responses to the combined exposure to unfavorable environmental factors. The signs characterizing ecopathology are considered and the main principles of the treatment and prevention of environment-dependent diseases are given.
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Antonov
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D000013:Congenital Abnormalities / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004781:Environmental Exposure / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D062665:Epidemiological Monitoring; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012800:Siberia / Q000453:epidemiology; D014505:Urban Population