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 Acoording to investigation of the environment pollution influence on human in 27 most industrial centres of Ukraine a sick rate in Kyiv exceeds average indices: of hypertensive illnesses - 40-80%, of respiratory diseases - 2 times, and among children: of digestion organs diseases -2-3 times, of breathing organs diseases 2 times, of skin diseases 27-32%. General Kyiv habitant morbidity exceeds average level in these 27 towns 25-50% (dependently on illness kind).

These data show that opinion about Kyiv as the town-park is wrong. The data gives a possibility to do at least two inconsolable deductions. First, an ecological situation in the capital of Ukraine is extremely anxious. Second, the present environment state damages Kyiv inhabitants health first of all rising generation.

One polluted matters, especially contained in air, water and feeding products, influence on human life immediately fast and negatively. It is intoxicating by dangerous wastes, disease conditioned by pathogenic microorganisms, violations of physiological functions and nervous discords, undesirable genetic consequences. Here one can be added up life mode inconveniences and additional complications on work places, lack of favourable conditions for recreation, too. In natural environment there is ionizing radiation, that accumulates because of functioning of atomic energetics units. Radioactive isotopes and radiation sources are used in industry, for the purpose of researching, to say nothing of negative superventions of Chornobyl catastrophe. There are not analogues in the world as for scales of negative influence on big region ecology, a life and health of millions peoples. Sizable municipal territory is also polluted by of great vitality radio nuclede, first of all, caesium, strontium, plutonium and some other.

Increasing environment acoustic pollution also causes sizably troubles to inhabitants, negatively influences on their health and psychic state. With development of all transport means a noise pressure on human life increases.It causes the rough, unbalance state, insomnia and as a result - cardiovascular and mental affections. Now in Kyiv streets over many regions and microraion a noise ordinary reaches 80-90 decibel a day, and 50-60 decibel at night that is impossible abnormal thing. Researches show that acoustic pollution of urban environment is one of probably factors that lead to increase of hypertensive illness and myocardium coronary thrombosis.

 


 

 
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