MAPPING OF ECOLOGICALLY UNFAVORABLE TERRITORIES BASED ON HUMAN HAIR COMPOSITION

Citation
Aa. Kist et al., MAPPING OF ECOLOGICALLY UNFAVORABLE TERRITORIES BASED ON HUMAN HAIR COMPOSITION, Biological trace element research, 64(1-3), 1998, pp. 1-12
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Endocrynology & Metabolism","Nutrition & Dietetics",Biology
ISSN journal
01634984
Volume
64
Issue
1-3
Year of publication
1998
Pages
1 - 12
Database
ISI
SICI code
0163-4984(1998)64:1-3<1:MOEUTB>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
As was shown (1), analysis of human hair on the population level and m apping of large territories using hair elemental composition are promi sing approaches for estimation of both the environmental situation and the population health status. In (1,2) the map of Uzbekistan (samplin g in 1981) was discussed. Ten years later (1991), samples from the ter ritory in the vicinity of the drying out Aral Sea were taken again. Sa mples were analyzed for 24 elements using instrumental neutron activat ion analysis. Comparison of the data and maps drawn for 1981 and 1991 and their comparison with changes of the health status have shown that repeated mapping of territories using data on human hair elemental co mposition could be used in medical geography, especially for predictio n of health status changes in ecologically unfavorable areas.