[Hygiene research in solving the health aspects of urban development]

The urban development and the problems it raises at present, are in direct relation with the conditions, which affect considerably the health of the population. The territorial and settlement system, the urban planning on ecological basis, the new methods of building in applying polymeric materials, the conditions of the environment in health establishments, the regulations of the physical factors, noise and electromagnetic energy are subject to the hygienic studies, in which the Institute of Hygiene and Occupational Health is engaged. The connective unit in the variety of the mentioned fields of investigation is the health of the inhabitants and finding the right way in its protection and keeping. The attitudes of prophylaxis, the creation and establishing of urban environment, corresponding to the conflict-free existence and potentiation of the health development of the inhabitants, are clarified, as they are related to the basic trends of the world Health Organization, whose targets are "Health for All by the year 2000".