[Assessment of the effect of meteorological factors on the health of a group of patients in the city of Iaşi].

UNLABELLED: Analyzing the meteorological factors influence perception on state of health and evaluation of the awareness of how they act.

MATERIAL AND METHODS: The study was carried out between 2010-2011 on a sample of 75 patients from of a cabinet of family medicine in the city of Iasi. The lot included randomly selected persons with age between 18-74 years. They answered a questionnaire with 25 items. The questionnaire Included demographic date (age, education, social, financial situation, the belonging religious) and questions on personal perception and evaluation of the influence of climate and weather conditions on individual state of health, degree to promote beneficial climatic factors in maintaining health and quality of life.

RESULTS: The istribution of Cases in function of perception implication in meteorological factors in health reveals the following aspects: they showed significantly morecases meteoro-sensibili from urban areas (45.3%) and meteoro dependentecases from rural areas (10.7%) in our group has revealed several casesmeteorosensibile both females (36%) and the male ones (14.7%) Distribution in the study group depending on the class of diseases revealed predominant rheumatic diseases (36%) and heart disease (33.3%), haematological (20%) mental illness (14.7%) digestive (12%),respiratory diseases and neurological (10.7%).

CONCLUSIONS: Meteorological facts does not represent etiological but the favoring or triggering factors in some pathological conditions. Important weather newsletters in informing and educating patients about the risks of meteorological sesnsibili requires that a necessity for maintaining health andquality of life.