Preduprezhdenie, diagnostika i lechenie khronicheskikh bolezney legkikh u detey yavlyayutsya problemoy ne tol"ko sugubo meditsinskoy, no i sotsial"noy: na ikh dolyu prikhoditsya nemalaya chast" kak pryamykh, tak i nepryamykh raskhodov obshchestva. Sushchestvennoe vliyanie okazyvayut oni na kachestvo i prodolzhitel"nost" zhizni bol"nykh. V predstavlennoy rabote vpervye provedena kompleksnaya otsenka i vyyavleny vedushchie ekologo-gigienicheskie, mediko-sotsial"nye, biologicheskie i nasledstvennye faktory riska, vliyayushchie na nespetsificheskuyu zabolevaemost" boleznyami organov dykhaniya sredi detskogo naseleniya s uchetom regional"nykh osobennostey, a takzhe polovykh i vozrastnykh razlichiy, v ramkakh epidemiologicheskogo issledovaniya, organizovannogo po tipu «sluchay-kontrol"». Pokazano, chto ispol"zovanie geoinformatsionnykh sistem pozvolyaet poluchit" naglyadnuyu kartinu ekologo-gigienicheskogo sostoyaniya issleduemykh territoriy, personifitsirovat" urovni khimicheskoy nagruzki i prognozirovat" vliyanie zagryazneniya prirodnykh sred na razvitie i rasprostranenie nespetsificheskikh bolezney organov dykhaniya sredi detskogo naseleniya. Dannaya rabota prednaznachaetsya dlya spetsialistov uchrezhdeniy prakticheskogo zdravookhraneniya i organov Rospotrebnadzora.