[Lifestyle and health of students].

The article presents the results of the evaluation of the most significant risk factors related to lifestyle and health of medical students of different courses andfaculties. The obtained data testify that out of the total number of factors that have a significant influence on the formation of bases of student's healthy lifestyle and health, the most typical are the mode of employment, the total workload, material well-being, living conditions of the majority of today's students, as well as the conditions of nutrition, physical activity, the presence or absence of such factors as smoking, frequency of consumption of alcoholic beverages.

[Methodological approaches to the training optimization for students in radiation hygiene].

In the article the psycho-pedagogical and physiological-hygienic aspects of improvement of student's learning in radiation hygiene at the Health-prophylactic Faculty of the medical institution within a framework of the requirements of the new Federal State Educational Standard -3 are considered.

[Socio-hygienic, psychological, and pedagogical adaptation in students].

The paper considers the topical hygienic aspects of education and adaptation improvement in senior (fourth-year) medical students from the Faculty of Medical Prevention.

[Implementation of F. F. Erisman's scientific ideas at the general hygiene department].

F.F. Erisman, a prominent scientist, gifted tutor, and outstanding public figure is ranked among the founders of hygienic science in this country. He created a university course of hygiene and founded a large scientific school. His scientific and public work was continued by many disciples, such as G.V. Khlopin, C.F. Bubnov, N.K. Ignatov, S.S. Orlov, A.N. Sysin, N.V. Krasnovskaya, etc. To-day, personnel of the Department develop universal approaches to rate setting as regards environmental factors harmful for human health.

[Medicosocial, demographic, and hygienic characteristics of the health status of adolescents, preconscripts, and conscripts].

Demographic analysis indicated the preponderance of adolescents and young men from workers' families. Analyzing the distribution of young men by follow-up groups showed that the largest number of young men in the workers' families belong to Group 2 (61.3%), those in the employees' families to Group 3 (46.7%). Analyzing the follow-up groups by the level of education revealed as follows: the higher level of education is, the more attention the young men pay to their health. The lowest medical education was noted in follow-up Group 3. Most adolescents belong to the basic group of physical fitness (88.3%), 6.7% in the preparatory group; 3.7%; in the special one. 1.3% need therapeutic exercises. At the same time, assessing exercise tolerance (88.3%) indicated an excellent physical development only in 9%, good, satisfactory, and bad physical development in 53.6, 32.4, and 5.1%, respectively.

[An analysis of the pathogenetic significance of irradiations from mobile phones]. / Analiz patogeneticheskoi znachimosti izluchenii mobil'nykh telefonov.

The biological effects of irradiations from mobile phones produced on different structures of the living matter, e.g. molecular-genetics, cells, organ-and-tissue, body and population, are analyzed in the paper. Possibilities of the genetic and epigenetic mutations, metabolic shifts, different-type cytopathic effects, oncogenesis induction, allergic conditions and of other processes associated with a certain lesion of the main structural-and-functional systems of microorganisms are elucidated. Irradiations from mobile phones are shown to have obvious effects on the molecular-and-genetic as well as on organ-and-tissue levels. However, contradictory enough data are available at the moment, which hamper a true evaluation of the unfavorable effects of the phenomenon both in respect to separate organisms and to a population as a whole. The offered analytic survey demonstrated distinctly a potential threat coming from a widely spread modern factor with the above threat requiring to be verified yet by special methods. It is equally quite obvious that, a need is shaping up to improve, in the future, the methods of detection and verification of "factor with finally non-established risk" as well as to investigate the potential pathological properties of such factors, which can essentially promote the system of the social-and-hygienic monitoring.

[Hygienic aspects of the impact of solid waste disposal sites on the habitat]. / Gigienicheskie aspekty vliianiia poligona tverdykh bytovykh otkhodov na sredu obitaniia.

The "Dmitrovsky" solid garbage (SG) ground is one of the largest enterprises of this kind in the Moscow Region. A total of 200,000-750,000 tons of solid garbage (91%) and industrial waste products (9%) annually come to the ground. A total of 5,500,000 tons of garbage and waste products have been accumulated since it was put into operation. From the accumulated SG deposits, iron, manganese, beryllium, titanium, barium, boron, petroleum products enter the surface and underground waters, methane, carbon oxide, ammonia, toluene, xylene, hydrogen sulfide, cresol, phenol come into the atmospheric air; the compounds of zinc, lead, cadmium, copper, nickel, magnesium, and cobalt do into the soil. The studies conducted in 1997-2002 make it possible to establish that the ground has a negative impact on the environment and to evaluate the efficiency of nature-conservation and hygienic measures, and to improve the technological process of SG utilization.

[Effect of plant protective chemicals on the environment and human health]. / Vliianie khimicheskikh sredstv zashchity rastenii na sredu obitaniia i zdorov'e naseleniia.

The developed and promoted package of ecological and hygienic measures and the specific programme introduced by the State Sanitary-and-Epidemiological Surveillance Committee have yielded positive results in sanitizing the Yakhroma flood land, approaches to rationally managing the medical and sanitary situation. The implemented measures are a preparatory stage of introduction of the assessment of a health risk in hygienic monitoring.

[Experimental studies of the combined effect of styrene and general vibration]. / Eksperimental'nye issledovaniia sochetannogo deistviia stirola i obshchei vibratsii.

People working in modern carpet industry are exposed to a complex of factors of different origin, the most important among which are general vibration and styrene vapors. It has been found out in animal experiments simulating working conditions, that the central nervous system is the most sensitive both under an isolated and joint exposure to the factors. The joint exposure of animals to styrene and vibration may be evaluated as having different targets depending on the parameters under study.

[Hygienic characteristics and ways of improving working conditions at a rug-making factory]. / Gigienicheskaia kharakteristika i puti ozdorovleniia uslovii truda rabochikh kovrovogo proizvodstva.

A complex of occupational factors, such as noise, vibration, workplace air dust loading, toxic fumes, forced work posture, neuroemotional and visual stress, affected health of those engaged at the carpet-making factory. The workers of basic professions experienced fatigue that was accumulated to the end of the working week. Diseases of the osteomuscular system, hypertension, vegetovascular dystonia, skin and subcutaneous fat infections, inflammatory diseases of female genital organs, hearing deterioration became more frequent in proportion to workers' age and length of service.