Research Article
Impact of Multivariate Risk Factors on Children’s Health in Ekaterinburg: A Cross-Sectional Study
Ekaterina Konstantinova1* and Anatoly Varaksin2
1Senior Researcher at laboratory of Mathematical Modelling in Ecology and Medicine, Institute of Industrial Ecology, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, S. Kovalevskaya Street, 20, 620990, Ekaterinburg, Russia
2Doctor of Sciences (Physics and Mathematics), Head of Mathematical Modeling Laboratory in Ecology and Medicine, Professor Institute of Industrial Ecology, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg, Russia
*Corresponding author: Ekaterina Konstantinova, Senior Researcher atlaboratory of Mathematical Modelling in Ecology and Medicine, Institute of Industrial Ecology, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, S. Kovalevskaya Street, 20, 620990, Ekaterinburg, Russia, Work ph. +7(343) 3623514; Fax: +7(343) 3743771, E-mail: konstantinovaekateri@gmail.com
Article Information: Submission: 16/03/2015; Accepted: 31/03/2015; Published: 05/04/2015
Copyright: © 2015 Ekaterina Konstantinova, et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Background: The study was undertaken to assess the multifactorial environment impact on human health in large industrial city. Our objective was to
look for the risk factors complex that has the greatest impact on the prevalence of diseases.
Methods: A cross-sectional epidemiological study was performed with a representative sample of 441 preschool-aged children. Classification Tree
method was used as the main research method.
Results: Our study showed that the complex of ecological risk factors (air pollution, drinking water pollution, a gas stove in the apartment, etc.) increases
the prevalence of diseases of the respiratory system and behavioral disorders from 2.5 to 4 times coupled with the socialeconomic risk factors.
Conclusions: This study shows that such factors as atmospheric pollution, gas-stove in apartment, parent smoking and mother’s low educational
attainment increase the prevalence of diseases even in terms of univariate approach. The authors have identified also risk factors sets having a maximum
negative influence on the prevalence diseases.