INSTITUTIONALISATION OF RETURN MIGRATION IN LATVIA: THE CASE OF REGIONAL COORDINATORS

Emigration countries such as Latvia institutionally should address the negative consequences of the ageing populations' economic and demographic challenges. To this aim, in 2018 network of five regional return migration coordinators was established to foster and nationally encourage return migration. The primary function of the regional coordinator is to foster and facilitate requests of potential return migrants.Drawing on interview materials collected in 2020 with return migration coordinators at the regional level – Latgale, Vidzeme, Zemgale, Kurzeme and Riga, we illustrate good-practice of return migration institutionalisation in Latvia.Our study focuses on three main fields of interest within the work of regional return coordinators: 1) what are the typical return migration paths from the coordinators' perspective? 2) what are the main challenges in coordinators' work? 3) how education-related issues for return migrants are solved?The research reveals that people typically return for family reasons and long for their homeland, traditions, and traditional settings. The research states that the main challenges coordinators' work relates to is the low standardisation level as each returnee's case is unique.

Phytotherapy in veterinary medicine

ветеринарная медицина, ветеринария, фитотерапия, лекарственные растени

Risk of disease as a criterion of medical-environmental conditions of the quality of life

Evaluation of features forming a local variant of population health, depending on local conditions is one of the urgent tasks for the study of preventive measures to improve the level of health and quality of life in specific areas. The aim of the work was the formation of local type of population health and environmental health components of quality of life in the industrialized areas of the Irkutsk region with use of indicators of the risk of disease. To solve this purpose the data of the prevalence of certain diseases and all classes of primary uptake of children and teenagers in the industrial cities of Irkutsk region with high levels of air pollution was used. Changes in environmental load assessed by the dynamics of total emissions of harmful substances and by terms of air pollution. Prevalence of environmentally caused diseases of children and teenagers in the research area and the degree of intensity of medical and environmental situation of the different areas with the definition of the category of its distress was assessed in terms of the relative risks of morbidity diseases of individual classes and all classes in the dynamics of the data and five-year periods. The local type of health of the industrial city in terms of ecological-depended morbidity was ranked by the number of classes of diseases and they determine the category of tension health and environmental situation. The possible impact of air pollution on the health of the population was analyzed with the possible evolution of the state of nonspecific increased resistance of children and teenagersfrom exposure to pollutants and other environmental factors. The presented results of the evaluation of the dynamics of health and environmental situation in the industrialized cities of Irkutsk region suggest that the relative risks of morbidity allows to define a local version of population health and to assess the environmental health component of quality of life in industrialized areas

Phosphorescent self-assembled PtII tetranuclear metallocycles

A series of rigid Pt(ii) diimine diacetylide complexes and their corresponding metallocyclic derivatives were synthesized through coordination-driven self-assembly. The photophysical properties of these complexes have been studied in detail, revealing exceptionally high RT phosphorescence quantum yields and lifetimes when the excited state becomes localized on the [small pi]-conjugated bridging-ligand following intramolecular charge-transfer sensitization

Estimation of the Medico-Ecological Component of Life Quality at the Level of Risk of Morbidity with Mass Non-Infectious Diseases

For an objective assessment of the quality of life (QOL) in areas with different environmental pressures and the development of recommendations for improving medical care, population studies of children are used. The purpose of this study is to assess the risk of a general incidence of mass noncommunicable diseases (МND) of the child population of industrial cities with various environmental pressures as an indicator of QOL. To assess the anthropogenic load in industrial cities, atmospheric air pollution with harmful substances was analyzed. The assessment of the influence of local factors of cities was determined by relative and attributable risks of morbidity using synchronous annual and corresponding to the studied time interval values of background and estimated morbidity, and the influence of common background factors by the value of initial background morbidity at the beginning of the long-term observation period. To assess and rank changes in QOL in areas with different environmental loads, we used the results of the analysis of the long-term risk dynamics of the minority disease of children’s population with long-term exposure to a complex of general and local environmental factors of industrial cities of the Irkutsk region. To do this, we used the criteria developed by the authors for assessing the degree of tension of the medico-ecological situation and the strength of the impact of environmental factors on them by the relative risk levels of the minimum level and the corresponding QOL levels for the specified component.QOL in terms of the minimum number of children’s diseases in the period under review decreases as a whole due to the increasing influence of general background (regional) factors throughout the region, and in the studied cities in addition from the influence of local adverse factors, including anthropogenic pollution of atmospheric air.A significant decrease in the local anthropogenic load is accompanied by a decrease in the associated additional МND and the severity of the additional to the background decrease in QOL in the industrial cities of the region, especially in Angarsk