Human Health Studies in the Area Influenced by Pulkovo Airport, St Petersburg

Within the Agreement between the Federal Scientific Center for Medical and Preventive Health Risk Management Technologies and the St Petersburg Department of the Federal Service on Customer Rights Protection and Human Well-being Surveillance, the Scientific Center specialists has carried out thorough studies of children's health in the area influenced by Pulkovo Airport, St Petersburg, in order to determine the probable impact of chemical exposure factors and noise levels on the children's health.

As part of this agreement, the following investigations will also be performed:

• an environmental quality assessment in the area influenced by Pulkovo Airport, based on the generalization and analysis of data on chemical exposure factors and noise levels,
• human health risk assessment (including that based on evolutionary models), based on the data obtained by the observations of environmental factors and human health in the area influenced by Pulkovo Airport,
• the analysis of prevalence of diseases in the population of the area influenced by Pulkovo Airport (from the point of view of critical human organs and systems and nosological entities related to the exposure),
• the identification of such relationships as “environmental quality / human health disorders.