Territorial zoning of the Murmansk region according to the most important environmental diseases in the population of the Murmansk region

Murmansk region is considered one of the most industrialised regions in the Arctic. The largest industries are energy, fishing and mining complexes. This results in a huge technogenic burden on the health and morbidity of the region's population. In the conditions of the Arctic latitudes, the problem of technogenic impact on the health of the population acts as a significant additional aggravating factor in relation to the "basic" unfavourable natural and climatic conditions that form the human environment and contributes to the growth of morbidity of the population of the region in certain classes of diseases. The aim of the study was to carry out a territorial zoning of the Murmansk region according to the most important environmentally related diseases in the population of the Murmansk region. The data of the information array were classified according to the indicators of morbidity of adults and children (0-14, 15-17 years) in the following environment-related diseases: neoplasms, diseases of the respiratory, urogenital and endocrine systems, diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue, diseases of the musculoskeletal system, in separate nosologically groups - asthma, asthmatic status. The analysis of environmental morbidity in the child population (0-17 years) showed a high level of morbidity in Murmansk, Lovozero and Kola districts. Among the adult population in the cities of Apatity, Kirovsk and the Lovozero district. The results of analysing the main environmentally related diseases of the total population allowed us to perform territorial zoning according to morbidity. The second group, with an average level of morbidity, includes the cities of Apatity, Kirovsk and Olenegorsk, Tersky and Kovdorsky districts. The third group, with a low morbidity rate, includes the cities of Monchegorsk, Pechenga and Kandalaksha Districts. The high morbidity rate of the child population in the territories with a low level of technogenic influence requires more detailed study.