28 Urban Medical Geology: Integrating Geologic and Anthropogenic Processes
Tuesday, 27 August 2013
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Washington II
SCIENTIFIC AND METHODOLOGICAL GROUNDS OF MEDICAL GEOLOGY
Paper number: 28-8
Program: Sessions
Time: 11:20 AM – 11:40 AM
Authors
Abstract
The interaction conditions of humans as a biological system with the geological environment were analyzed in such areas:
• surface and underground hydrosphere, which influence the human organism due to drinking water consumption, insufficient chemical composition of which causes over 80% of diseases;
• landscape-geochemical spherethat indicates the influence of certain chemical elements on the functioning of systems soil–plant–human body, soil–plant–animal–human body, etc;
• geophysical sphere, which is a result of global, regional and local transformations that define the formation of electromagnetic fields, radiation and other conditions that have instant impact on human.
The results of geological mapping determines the range of potential diseases that may hurt people living within the certain type of geological environment. Knowing the characteristics of geological processes that affect human health, it is possible to take management actions related to the limit, localization and exclusion of the negative impact of geological processes on human body.