[Respiratory organ morbidity in workers in the mining industry]. / Zabolevaemost' organov dykhaniia u rabochikh gornorudnoi promyshlennosti.

Morbidity involving temporary unfitness for work in underground miners is marked by a great specific weight among them of disorders of the respiratory system. In the structure of the above disorders acute viral-and-bacterial infections of the respiratory organs predominate and determine the increment of chronic unspecific lung diseases in miners as well as high rates of occupational pathology of the respiratory organs.

[The morbidity characteristics of diseases of the bone and muscle systems in workers in iron-ore mines and quarries depending on the conditions and nature of the work]. / Osobennosti zabolevaemosti bolezniami kostno-myshechnoi sistemy u rabochikh zheleorudnykh shakht i kar'erov v zavisimosti ot uslovii i kharaktera truda.

In terms of applying for medical advice in osteomuscular disorders, taking second place in the structure, it has been established that in practically identical values for the general level of morbidity, the incidence rate of lumbosacral radiculites, myalgias and myosites in drifters and drillers is 5.8 and 2.5 times as high respectively, that of thoracic and lumbar, cervical osteochondrosis, epicondylitis in drivers--3.9, 2.4, and 3.3 times as high, which facts might suggest an important role in the etiology of the above conditions, in the first place, of great physical loads plus high levels of noise, vibration, cooling microclimate, in the former case, and such loads coupled with high nervous and emotional tension, general low frequency vibration, noise, in the latter case. The established level and structure of occupational disorders of the locomotor system in both groups workers suggest their inadequate identification in respect of both amount and nosology.

[Problem of predicting occupational morbidity among workers in the iron ore mines of the Krivoi Rog region]. / K voprosu o prognozirovanii professional'noi zabolevaemosti rabochikh zhelezorudnykh shakht Krivbassa.

The article represents the morbidity prognosis of silicosis, dust bronchitis, cochlear neuritis, vibration disease, trinitrotoluene cataract. Only the morbidity prognosis of silicosis proved to be stable, because the objective diagnosis makes its level close to true.

[The causes of disability in the miners of iron ore mines]. / Prichiny invalidnosti gornorabochnikh zhelezorudnykh shakht.

The authors discuss primary invalidity of ore miners, the causes of invalidity with consideration of classes of diseases, profession, age, sex and length of work. Recommendations directed to reduce invalidity in ore miners are described.