[The effect of the territorial loads of pesticides and mineral and organic fertilizers on morbidity in children up to 14 years old in Ukraine].

Under conditions of farming intensification mineral and organic fertilizers, apart from pesticides, are recognized as an important source of environmental pollution in rural localities and of harmful impact on the health of paediatric population (especially of children during their first year of life), with the territorial loads of the above substances exceeding the critical level. Morbidity among children under 14 years of age increases predominantly at the expense of common unspecific kinds of pathology.