CLIMATE IMPACT ON HEALTH AND RESPIRATORY PATHOLOGY DEVELOPMENT IN FOREIGN PEOPLE STUDYING AT THE RUSSIAN MILITARY ACADEMY

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of foreign servicemen health decline. These people came to Russia from different continents: Central Africa, South-East Asia and from Middle East countries. One of the reasons of poor adaptation of the first and the second year foreign cadets studying at the Far Eastern Military Academy of Higher Education is considered to be a sharp climate change. Comparison characteristics of the Amur region’s climate as well as foreign servicemen regions of permanent residence - equatorial, subequatorial and subtropical climate zones are given in the article. It is shown that the young people’s poor adaptation and respiratory pathology depend on the medium temperature, the quantity of clear days, fogs, СO₂ and CO concentration, humidity. The article illustrates that the growth of respiratory morbidity rate (where community-acquired pneumonia takes one of the first ranks) depends on the adaptation to the cold factor and reaction of organism to the general cold influence. Currently there is no specific and consistent system of respiratory diseases prevention at the stage of servicemen adaptation to the new ambient conditions in the medical service of Military Forces. One of the main modern tasks for medical service of Military Forces of RF is the development and realization of the programs on prevention of respiratory system diseases, the development and perfection of methods for express-diagnosis of the respiratory system diseases.