[Prevalence of chronic somatic diseases in workers engaged into luminescent lamps production].

The article presents results of epidemiologic study concerning occupational risk of chronic general somatic diseases in workers engaged into luminescent lamps production. Evidences are that hazardous work conditions affecting workers in main workshops of luminescent lamps production increase prevalence of chronic locomotory and connective tissue diseases, skin and cellular tissue disorders, respiratory diseases.

[Special industrial medicine as a basis for workers' health preservation].

The article covers results and prospects of research in special industrial medicine on improving methodology of complex evaluation of work conditions in major economy branches including medical sphere workers. On the basis of ecologic epidemiologic research, remote effects of occupational and non-industrial hazards in workers and general population were studied, new technologic processes and equipment were assessed, principles for unifying methods to control chemicals in workplace air were defined, regulation methodical documents concordant with WHO, ILO and EC are specified.

[Problems of more healthy work conditions, occupational diseases prevention on enterprises of major economic branches].

The article deals with evaluation of contemporary work conditions in mining enterprises, iron industry, aluminium production plants. Work conditions are classified according to hazard level and jeopardy in various occupations within the enterprises. Reports presented by Russian Mining Metallurgy Trade-union on occupational morbidity over 2002-2010 were summarized. Occupational morbidity parameters were defined, their increase was identified, structure of occupational pathology was determined. The authors formulated suggestions in improving the work conditions, in occupational diseases prevention in mining enterprises, iron industry and aluminium production plants.

[Evidence-based medicine in evaluating occupational health risk in workers engaged into graphite ware production].

The article deals with results of epidemiologic study on evaluating the health state of workers engaged into graphite ware production, through three various parameters based on data about chronic non-occupational diseases. The authors evaluate carcinogenic risk for the population residing on various distances from the enterprise.

[Topical problems of occupational hygiene on extracting enterprises of Far North].

The article covers peculiarities of work conditions and their classification on enterprises extracting and processing raw materials in climate conditions of Far North, contains parameters of workers' morbidity.

[Work conditions and occupational morbidity on mining industry enterprises].

The authors analysed contemporary work conditions on metallurgic mining industry enterprises, revealed intensity of main occupational hazards, summarized results of workplaces certification at these enterprises. The article covers parameters, structure of occupational morbidity among workers engaged into underground winning of ores, ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy, aluminium plants since 2002 till 2006. Materials on workplaces certification are compared with results of periodic medical examinations in separate industrial entities. The authors outlined major directions of research in occupational medicine for healthy and safe work conditions.

[Effect of work conditions on life expectancy in workers of some occupations (methodological approaches)]. / Vliianie uslovii truda na predstoiashchuiu prodolzhitel'nost' zhizni rabotnikov otdel'nykh professii (metodicheskie podkhody).

The authors presented methodic approaches to evaluation of work conditions influence on average life expectancy in workers of some occupations.

[Ecologic and epidemiologic studies in social and hygienic monitoring systems]. / Rol' ékologo-épidemiologicheskogo issledovaniia v sisteme sotsial'no-gigienicheskogo monitoringa.

This ecologic and epidemiologic study covered effects caused by occupational and other factors on health of working and general population.

[Influence of work conditions and climate factors on respiratory diseases prevalence among workers of Northern regions]. / Vliianie uslovii truda i klimaticheskikh faktorov na rasprostranennost' boleznei organov dykhaniia u rabotaiushchikh na Severe.

The article deals with study covering influence of industrial and climate hazards on respiratory diseases prevalence among workers of wash-house situated in cool climate, with search of the most informative values for organization of social and hygienic monitoring. The results proved that the controlled values should include not only dust load and ambient air temperature, but also "duration of work in ambient air speed over allowable value", "duration of work in ambient air humidity over allowable value", "length of service in North" and "climate area of previous dwelling".

[Children's health as a subject to sanitary and hygienic monitoring]. / Zdorov'e detei kak ob"ekt sotsial'no-gigienicheskogo monitoringa.

Sanitary and hygienic monitoring in town near Moscow evaluated health of children living in areas under various ecologic circumstances. The results proved that living near automobile roads and in town's industrial district is associated with considerably lower health state of the children. Increased level of acoustic exposure in the district corresponds to more frequent appeals to medical establishments for cardiovascular care.

[Epidemiologic study of mortality of workers of metallurgy enterprise in Nizhni Tagil]. / Epidemiologicheskoe izuchenie smertnosti rabochikh Nizhne-Tagil'skogo metallurgicheskogo kombinata.

The article studies long-term effects of occupational factors on metallurgists' health. The epidemiologic research revealed that hard physical work in chronic and intensive heating microclimate with high levels of dust increases the mortality risk among workers engaged into open-hearth, necking, converter and blast furnace shops (the death causes--arterial hypertension, coronary heart disease, pneumonia, bronchitis, tracheal and bronchial cancer, lung and pancreatic carcinoma). The auxiliary workers of those shops, who face intermittent influence of the same factors demonstrated the mortality levels insignificantly different from those of a reference region. Influence of chemicals containing carcinogens increases the mortality among workers or non-coke and coke shops (the death causes--tracheal, bronchial and lung cancer.

[The evaluation of alternative fuels for automobile transport and the resolution of hygienic and ecological tasks]. / Otsenka al'ternativnykh topliv dlia avtomobil'nogo transporta i reshenie zadach gigieny i ékologii.

Automobile transport ranks first among the pollutants of big cities by nitrogen and carbogen oxides nowadays. Other kinds of fuel are to reduce the level of pollution. Evaluation of the liquid and gaseous fuel showed their positive hygienic and ecological prospects.