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During 1992 about 1 million persons were registered living on territories of enhanced radio-ecological conta mination. Among liquidators, 28.6 percent were consi dered to be healthy (33.8% in 1991), among evacuees —27.5% (28.7% in 1991). Young boy plagued with leukemia at a children’s facility in a Kiev hospital. Photos taken by Mrs. Lidia Czernyk, while on a visit to Ukraine in 1990. UKRAINIAN STU D IES IN T H E IN TE R N A TIO N A L A R EN A The new context created by the independence of Ukraine offers unlimited possibilities to maximize po tentials. A review and redefinition of the conceptual direction of Ukrainian Studies at all levels both in and outside Ukraine are a matter of urgency. Needless to say, it is undisputable that the deve lopment of Ukrainian studies outside Ukraine in this century played a very crucial role in maintaining the flame of the Ukrainian identity and culture — a kind of perpetual ievshan zillia. Equally, the fact that Ukrainian Studies have been created and developed under adverse financial and contextual conditions is praiseworthy. In Ukraine the manipulation of Ukrainian Studies by the ruling power has had dire consequences and has created various intricate problems, the solution of which should now be sought in earnest. Furthermore, Ukrainian studies are virtually nonexistent in the republics of the former Soviet Union. Indeed, this is a paradox in the so- called egalitarian system: Russian Studies have been fully developed throughout the FSU to the detriment of the other republic’s studies. In the morbidity structure of these contigencies, the first to rank is the respiratory organs pathology, then diseases of cardiovascular and anemia, chronic tonsilitis, and congenital anomaly of the cardiovascular system. Adaptation potential of a child’s organism is decrea sing. Chornobyl syndrome of a frequently ill child is being formed. Of particular importance within the circle of patholo gical diseases of the thyroid is their ratio increase among children. Before 1986 4-5 cases of thyroid cancer were registered annually in Ukraine, but in 1990 it increased to 21 and in 1991 to 25. In 1992 clinics of the Ukrainian Research Institute for Endocrinology and Metabolism registered 33 children who were operated because of thyroid cancer. It is assumed that in the future there will be a peak of psyche oncopathy. Appearance of additional cases of hypothyrosis and auto immune thyroiditis is expected. It is not by chance that section ’’Thyroid” is recognized as one of the most important topics in the International Medical Chornobyl Program. A considerable network of medical establishments for treatment of victims has been organized. 10 dispensa ries of population radiation protection, clinics of the Ukrainian Research center for Radiation Medicine, and a number of specialized departments and hospitals are functioning. Scientific support of diagnostics, prohylaxis and treatment is conducted by 24 research institutions. Firstly, there is an urge to redefine Ukrainian Studies and, in my view, this needs to be accompanied by a reassessment of what one regards as Ukrainian Studies in the context of the end of the 20th century. What is noteworthy in the development of studies of specific countries or regions, at both the leading universitites and research institutes around the world, is the fact that it is no longer only the traditional humanities which constitute such studies. As a matter of fact, areas which bear relation to economy, international affairs, strategic planning, environment and the use of natural resources, and social policy seem to be regarded as essential as the cultural, historical and the necessary linguistic background. Anyone who is involved in either the establishment or development of Ukrainian Studies must have perceived this need for change and expansion in an increasingly more complex and competitive world. I am referring here not only to short and medium term educational planning but especially to long term — considering the advances that human knowledge will have made in the next century. Hence a modernization of the way by which Ukra inian Studies are conceptualized and defined is sine qua non ubiquitously. However, I should like to suggest that it is even more crucial in Ukraine. In addition to that, the prospect of modernizing and developing Ukrainian Stu 20 ’’НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ЛИСТОПАД 1993 Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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