PROCESSING OF SCREENING DATA OBTAINED FOR PERIPHERAL-BLOOD OF CHILDREN EXPOSED TO RADIATION IN CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT

The paper describes processing of peripheral blood screening based on methods of mathematical statistics and partially ordered sets theory. This allows global assay of individual and populational blood, assessm ent of borderline conditions by introduction of global criterion. The above methodology was tried to analyze data obtained at screening of p eripheral blood from children living in radionuclide-contaminated regi ons. The most considerable contribution to region-specific populationa l differences belongs to red cells, monocytes, band neutrophils, eosin ophils. Hemogram deterioration in children and adolescents seems to re sult rather from chemical pollution and social factors than radiation effect (in doses not high than 2.2 rem a year).