Environmental risk factors and neonatal health in aluminum industry areas

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The article presents data on ambient air pollution with priority chemicals from industrial emissions of the Ural aluminum industry and information about health of infants born from mothers living in the vicinity of aluminum plants. Reconstruction of the Ural Aluminum Plant has helped improve environmental conditions, which, in their turn, lead to the decrease in the incidence of pathologies of pregnancy and a significant improvement of neonatal health.

Keywords: Aluminum Plant, neonatal children, environmental conditions