TY - GEN
T1 - Desertification and population health in the Turkmenistan part of the Aral Sea region
AU - Orlovsky, N.
AU - Radzinsky, V.
AU - Orlovsky, L.
PY - 2001/1/1
Y1 - 2001/1/1
N2 - The main causes of desertification in the Aral Sea Basin are the regulating of flow of Amudarya and Syrdarya rivers resulted in the sharp reduction of the Aral Sea level, subsequent change of regional climate towards aridization and continentality, increase of irrigation and drinking water mineralization, pollution of surface and ground water by municipal wastes and the residues of agrochemicals, deposition of salts transferred from the exposed and dried bottom of the Aral Sea. The high level of water, air and soil pollution in combination with extreme climatic conditions inevitably affect the health of women and children leading to unfavorable outcomes of pregnancy and births, health problems of infants and children, and women of fertile age. The results of 5-year study on influence of environmental factors on health of women and children in Dashkhovuz velayat of Turkmenistan are presented.
AB - The main causes of desertification in the Aral Sea Basin are the regulating of flow of Amudarya and Syrdarya rivers resulted in the sharp reduction of the Aral Sea level, subsequent change of regional climate towards aridization and continentality, increase of irrigation and drinking water mineralization, pollution of surface and ground water by municipal wastes and the residues of agrochemicals, deposition of salts transferred from the exposed and dried bottom of the Aral Sea. The high level of water, air and soil pollution in combination with extreme climatic conditions inevitably affect the health of women and children leading to unfavorable outcomes of pregnancy and births, health problems of infants and children, and women of fertile age. The results of 5-year study on influence of environmental factors on health of women and children in Dashkhovuz velayat of Turkmenistan are presented.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=3543074574&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.2495/ehr010261
DO - 10.2495/ehr010261
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:3543074574
SN - 1853128759
SN - 9781853128752
T3 - Environmental Health Risk
SP - 267
EP - 276
BT - Environmental Health Risk
PB - WIT Press
T2 - First International Conference on the Impact of Environmental Factors on Health Risk, ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH RISK 2001
Y2 - 10 September 2001 through 12 September 2001
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