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Doses from external irradiation and ingestion of 134 Cs, 137 Cs and 90 Sr of the population of Belarus accumulated over 35 years after the Chernobyl accident
This study considers the exposure of the population of the most contaminated Gomel and Mogilev Oblasts in Belarus to prolonged sources of irradiation resulting from the Chernobyl accident. Dose reconstruction methods were developed and applied in this study to estimate the red bone-marrow doses (RBMs) from (i) external irradiation from gamma-emitting radionuclides deposited on the ground and (ii) 134Cs, 137Cs and 90Sr ingestion with locally produced foodstuffs. The mean population-weighted RBM doses accumulated during 35 years after the Chernobyl accident were 12 and 5.7 mGy for adult residents in Gomel and Mogilev Oblasts...
Source: Radiation and Environmental Biophysics - June 29, 2022 Category: Physics Authors: Vladimir Drozdovitch Tatiana Kukhta Sergey Trofimik Dunstana R Melo Kiryl Viarenich Marina Podgaiskaya Victor Minenko Source Type: research

Who Will Sustain a Culture of Democracy in Post-Communist States? Examining Patterns of Democratic Competence among Youth in Albania and Belarus
This study draws on the Council of Europe ’s Reference Framework of Competencies for Democratic Culture and the framework of the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study to explore patterns of democratic orientation among adolescents in Albania and Belarus (N = 711). Latent profile analyses identified five groups of democratically oriented adolescents in both states: (a)All-around citizens, (b)Idealistic and Disengaged, (c)Duty-oriented, (d)Diversity Enthusiasts and (e)Alienated. Results further revealed that profiles were unevenly distributed between the two countries and that profile membership was diffe...
Source: Social Indicators Research - June 29, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Delegating gestation or 'assisted reproduction?
This paper argues that we ought to distinguish between ‘assisted’ gestation and ‘delegating’ gestation—and that the relevant difference does not depend on whether it is another human or technological system doing the work.1 In the philosophy of action, there is an important theoretical gap between S ‘helping A to ’ and S ‘-ing on behalf of A’: the former is an instance of joint agency while the latter is an individual’s action. This matters because if the latter counts as an intentional action, then only S is being said to have acted intentionally while, if the fo...
Source: Journal of Medical Ethics - June 23, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Di Nucci, E. Tags: Commentary Source Type: research

Who Will Sustain a Culture of Democracy in Post-Communist States? Examining Patterns of Democratic Competence among Youth in Albania and Belarus
This study draws on the Council of Europe ’s Reference Framework of Competencies for Democratic Culture and the framework of the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study to explore patterns of democratic orientation among adolescents in Albania and Belarus (N = 711). Latent profile analyses identified five groups of democratically oriented adolescents in both states: (a)All-around citizens, (b)Idealistic and Disengaged, (c)Duty-oriented, (d)Diversity Enthusiasts and (e)Alienated. Results further revealed that profiles were unevenly distributed between the two countries and that profile membership was diffe...
Source: Social Indicators Research - June 17, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

The ecumenical role of science and scientific societies in the face of adversity
To my great disappointment, I read the official statement of the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) dated the 9th of May 2022 that membership of Russian and Belarussian vascular specialists is suspended. This decision was based on ESVS ’ wish to convey a message that actions of the Russian government and the defence of such actions by the Belarussian government are not supported by the ESVS. (Source: European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery)
Source: European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery - June 15, 2022 Category: Surgery Authors: George A. Antoniou Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research

IJERPH, Vol. 19, Pages 7226: Is the Association between Suicide and Unemployment Common or Different among the Post-Soviet Countries?
Altay Dyussupov The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) collapsed in 1991 and separated into the 15 post-Soviet countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. The post-Soviet countries have faced many economic problems, including unemployment. The association between suicide and unemployment in post-Soviet countries has not been well studied. Here, we researched the annual suicide rate and the unemployment rate during the 28-year period from 1992 to 2019 in the 15 post-Soviet countries. We...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - June 13, 2022 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Nursultan Seksenbayev Ken Inoue Elaman Toleuov Kamila Akkuzinova Zhanna Karimova Timur Moldagaliyev Nargul Ospanova Nailya Chaizhunusova Altay Dyussupov Tags: Article Source Type: research

Seasonal anomalies in radioactivity of the near-surface atmosphere in the Chernobyl-affected area of Belarus
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2022 Jun 9. doi: 10.1007/s11356-022-21239-1. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIncreased radioactivity in the near-surface atmosphere is virtually an annual occurrence in the Gomel region, Belarus. However, there is no explicit evidence as to what causes these anomalies and whether their origin has a strong seasonal association. To establish any such relations, we have analysed long-term radiation monitoring data recorded in the region over the past 17 years from 2003 to 2020 to find that abnormal levels of atmospheric radioactivity in summer and in winter have different origins. Summer spikes are m...
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - June 8, 2022 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Aliaksandr Dvornik Zhanna Bakarikova Source Type: research

Founder vs. non-founder BRCA1/2 pathogenic alleles: the analysis of Belarusian breast and ovarian cancer patients and review of other studies on ethnically homogenous populations
AbstractThe spectrum ofBRCA1/2 mutations demonstrates significant interethnic variations. We analyzed for the first time the entireBRCA1/2 coding region in 340 Belarusian cancer patients with clinical signs ofBRCA1/2-related disease, including 168 women with bilateral and/or early-onset breast cancer (BC), 104 patients with ovarian cancer and 68 subjects with multiple primary malignancies involving BC and/or OC.BRCA1/2 pathogenic alleles were detected in 98 (29%) women, with 67 (68%) of these being represented by founder alleles. Systematic comparison with other relevant studies revealed that the founder effect observed in...
Source: Familial Cancer - May 21, 2022 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research

War in Ukraine: an immense threat to the fight against tuberculosis
As reported by the Global Tuberculosis Network in the European Respiratory Journal, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has distressingly resulted in a plateauing of the global decrease in tuberculosis (TB) incidence as well as entailed a surge in mortality for the first time in a decade [1, 2]. As the COVID-19 pandemic response is gradually being integrated into healthcare systems worldwide, the war in Ukraine poses a new threat to TB control in Europe. Over the years, an admirable progress in combating TB has been achieved globally and regionally, although optimal control of TB was not yet fully in sight in Ukraine or Ru...
Source: European Respiratory Journal - April 21, 2022 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Dahl, V., Migliori, G. B., Lange, C., Wejse, C. Tags: Original Articles: Correspondence Source Type: research

IJERPH, Vol. 19, Pages 4370: Tuberculosis Co-Infection Is Common in Patients Requiring Hospitalization for COVID-19 in Belarus: Mixed-Methods Study
ev Alena Skrahina A significant drop in tuberculosis (TB) case-finding has been widely reported during the period of the COVID-19 pandemic. To address a decrease in TB notification, Belarus introduced laboratory TB testing in patients with the laboratory-confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). We conducted a secondary analysis of health records among 844 patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis who were admitted to repurposed departments at TB hospitals and who were tested by Xpert MTB/RIF (Cepheid Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA) in five Belarus regions between April and October 2021. Quantitative analy...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - April 5, 2022 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Yuliia Sereda Oleksandr Korotych Dzmitry Klimuk Dzmitry Zhurkin Varvara Solodovnikova Malgorzata Grzemska Viatcheslav Grankov Hennadz Hurevich Askar Yedilbayev Alena Skrahina Tags: Article Source Type: research

Level of physical activity of students in Poland, Portugal and Belarus
CONCLUSIONS: Men, compared to women, were characterized by a higher average amount of energy consumption related to total activity and intensive exercise. Students in Belarus obtained the highest average amount of energy expenditure related to moderate and intensive activity, compared to students at BUT, WSWFiTB and in Portugal. A high level of activity dominated both in the group of underweight/normal body weight, as well as overweight and obese persons.PMID:35352916 | DOI:10.26444/aaem/142295 (Source: Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine : AAEM)
Source: Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine : AAEM - March 30, 2022 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Mariola Kr ól Robert Latosiewicz Rui Miguel Marques Br ás W ładisław Barkow Jolanta Gra żyna Zuzda Source Type: research