Impact of anthropogenic pollution on the health of the population of East Kazakhstan: Environmental risks and dependent diseases

Abstract

Health assessment in modern times requires the development of effective approaches to identifying changes in the body under the influence of the environment and toxic chemicals emitted by industrial enterprises. Currently, in the industrially developed regions of Kazakhstan, such as the East Kazakhstan region, the impact of anthropogenic factors is increasing, leading to an elevation in the environmental load and adversely affecting the population's health. East Kazakhstan is under significant environmental pressure, negatively impacting the population's health. The combined effects of toxicants on the ecosystem and the human body have not been thoroughly studied. The available literary information is fragmentary, and they do not allow us to draw certain conclusions about the significance of functional systems of the human body in long-term exposure to a complex of harmful toxic substances. At the same time, the existing scientific reports on the importance and necessity of research into the health of the population under the influence of a complex of toxic chemicals emitted by industrial enterprises quite convincingly speak for the tendency of deterioration of the health of the population in the Eastern region of Kazakhstan. The purpose of this study was to generalize and systematize scientific publications with a depth of 15 years (2009-2024) devoted to the study of the impact of anthropogenic factors on the health of the population in industrial regions, using the East Kazakhstan Region (EKR) as an example. An analysis method was used to achieve this goal, within which scientific papers that met the inclusion criteria were assessed. Data sources were PubMed, Google Scholar, and other relevant resources. The target of the research was the impact of anthropogenic environmental factors on the population's health.

Keywords

• environmental pollution
• anthropogenic impact
• heavy metals
• radioactive
• health of population
• diseases