[Organization of State Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance via local social-hygienic monitoring system]. / Organizatsiia gossanépidnadzora cherez sistemu sotsial'no-gigienicheskogo monitoringa mestnogo urovnia.

State sanitary and epidemiological surveillance (SSES) centers have gained much experience in organizing sociohygienic monitoring (SHM). However, the common mechanism that may intrinsically combine SHM and SSES is lacking so far. The proposed model of the activities of SSES in the SHM system at the local management level may largely solve the facing problem and organize SSES in the local monitored area under the Russian Federation's Law "On Human Sanitary and Epidemiological Well-Being" under No. 52-[symbol: see text]3, passed on March 30, 1999.

[The factors affecting the immune status of the workers in chemical plants]. / Izuchenie faktorov, vliiaiushchikh na immunnyi status rabotnikov khimicheskikh proizvodstv.

The characteristics of immune status were studied in 284 employees of chemical plants of Novomoskovsk, producing synthetic detergents, aniline, diamine, maleic anhydride, etc. For control, 100 healthy residents of Novomoskovsk, not employed in chemical industry, were used. The employees of chemical plants were found to have significant deviations in their humoral and cell-mediated immunity. The intensity of the manifestation of these immunological changes correlated with the duration of their work in chemical industry and did not depend on the nature of the chemical substance dealt with during work and its amount, as well as on the sex or age of the employees under examination. These findings are of importance for the development of the system of prophylactic medical checks of the workers of chemical industry.