Analiziruyutsya mekhanizmy adaptatsii i razvitiya zabolevaniy organov dykhaniya u zhiteley Kraynego Severa, v rezul"tate vozdeystviya klimaticheskikh i antropogennykh faktorov. Rassmatrivayutsya sleduyushchie teorii: polyarnoy gipoksii, kholodovoy travmy, reflektornykh vozdeystviy, narusheniy ventilyatsii, narusheniy krovoobrashcheniya, nizkoy vlazhnosti vozdukha, perekisnogo okisleniya, mediatornogo vozdeystviya, ugneteniya zashchitnykh mekhanizmov, ne klimaticheskikh faktorov (proizvodstvennykh i bytovykh pollyutantov, geomagnitnoy aktivnosti, faktorov pitaniya, trudovoy migratsii i otdykha severyan). Bol"shoe vnimanie udeleno mekhanizmam razvitiya i klinicheskomu opisaniyu variantov fenomena polyarnoy odyshki. Otdel"naya glava posvyashchena voprosam klimatogeograficheskogo rayonirovaniya territoriy Kraynego Severa, v zavisimosti ot adaptatsionnoy nagruzki na organy dykhaniya. Predlozheny puti profilaktiki zabolevaniy organov dykhaniya u severyan i metodiki korrektsii polyarnoy odyshki. Kniga mozhet byt" polezna vracham, rabotayushchim v severnykh regionakh, organizatoram zdravookhraneniya, spetsialistam po ekstremal"noy meditsine, spetsialistam po proektirovaniyu zhilykh i proizvodstvennykh ob"ektov, odezhdy i transportnykh sredstv, organizatoram vakhtovogo truda.