IKBFU Researcher’s Book on the Impact of Climate Conditions on Health Published by Springer Nature

The monograph co-authored by Andrei Tarasov (Candidate of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor at the Department of Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine, IKBFU) and Rofail Rakhmanov (Professor at the Hygiene Department at Privolzhsky Research Medical University, Nizhny Novgorod) has been published by Springer Nature, one of the largest international academic publishers.

The publication presents the results of medico-geographical studies carried out over the past 20 years. The authors examined the influence of the physical environment on human health in different climatic regions of Russia. The findings allowed scientists to link the habitat conditions to the wellness of different population groups. In addition, the authors offer a prenosological diagnostic technique for gauging the state of biological adaptation systems during acclimatisation and various ways to strengthen them.

Practical significance:

The risk for public health was determined by duration and risk level of weather conditions in different climate areas
Significant criteria for prenosological health diagnosis during adaptation and acclimatisation by epidemiological, clinical-biochemical, sanitary-chemical and immunological blood parameters were identified
The methods of preventing dysadaptation shifts and diseases associated with acclimatisation were substantiated and compared by effectiveness.

Full monograph available here.

Andrei Tarasov, Department of Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, associate professor, candidate of medical sciences:
One of the main contributors to present national growth is the active development of the Far North, Far East, and Arctic territories. One’s relocation to these regions will be accompanied by a strain of the organism’s regulatory mechanisms due to the processes of biological and psychological adaptation to new social conditions and habitat. This can lead to the development of prenosological conditions, increase in morbidity, decrease in professional competence and performance. Therefore, the study of human adaptation and prevention of disorders associated with the process is needed in the globally changing climate conditions.

Andrei Tarasov, Department of Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, associate professor, candidate of medical sciences:

One of the main contributors to present national growth is the active development of the Far North, Far East, and Arctic territories. One’s relocation to these regions will be accompanied by a strain of the organism’s regulatory mechanisms due to the processes of biological and psychological adaptation to new social conditions and habitat.

This can lead to the development of prenosological conditions, increase in morbidity, decrease in professional competence and performance. Therefore, the study of human adaptation and prevention of disorders associated with the process is needed in the globally changing climate conditions.