16B.1
Are cosmophysical impacts on human health of global nature?
Oleg I. Shumilov, Polar Geophysical Institute, Apatity, Russia; and E. A. Kasatkina, A. V. Chramov, and E. V. Gavrilenko
On the data of incident events (traumas, unexpected deaths, heart and nervous illnesses) of Russian miners at Barentsburg (geomagnetic latitude: 74.9) their possible connection to solar and magnetic activity (local magnetic activity and penetrating solar protons) was investigated. It was obtained that the extreme situation events correlate rather well to increase of solar and magnetic activity. The infradian rhythms (with period of about 7 days) observed in variations of extreme situation level seem to be caused by heliogeophysical factors. During winter time not only enhanced level of activity, but also very low level of it may influence on appearance of extreme situations. This result has also been obtained on the data of fetal state monitoring in the auroral zone (Apatity, geomagnetic latitude: 63.8) and on the tram-car driver health data at the middle latitudes (St.-Petersburg, geomagnetic latitude: 56.1). This permits us to suppose a global nature of the cosmophysical impact on human health. The results obtained may be used in forecast of extreme situation level depending on geomagnetic conditions.
Session 16B, Radiation and Magnetism Impacts on Human Physiology
Friday, 1 November 2002, 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
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