Assessment of the impact of the quality of drinking water on the primary morbidity of children in the Altai Territory
The number of environmental factors that adversely affect the health of children is growing every year, their combination is different in each territory. It is the child’s body that is most sensitive to changes in environmental conditions, reacting to this with a deterioration in health. Currently, there is a tendency to study the regional characteristics of the interaction of a set of environmental factors with the child’s body. The aim of the work was to identify trends in the primary non-infectious morbidity among children in the Altai Territory, as well as to assess the possible impact of the state of drinking water on the morbidity of children in the region. In the region, an unfavorable tendency was revealed in such groups of nosologies as neoplasms, diseases of the endocrine system, diseases of the circulatory system, diseases of the digestive system, diseases of the genitourinary system, congenital anomalies, and diseases of the respiratory system. The regularity of distribution over the territory of the region of administrative-territorial formations with a high incidence rate was revealed. The analysis of associations of morbidity in children with average annual concentrations of substances polluting the atmospheric air and drinking water showed the presence of reliable correlations in areas of critical and stressful environmental quality. The results obtained indicate the need for a detailed assessment of the influence of environmental factors on the incidence rate of children in the regional aspect, the formation of a database and the development of automated programs capable of predicting the incidence rate in each specific territory. This will improve the efficiency, including the economic, of preventive measures.