[The algorithm of application of results of social hygienic monitoring at regional level].

The article presents analysis of assembled and processed data concerning development of algorithm of practical application of results of social hygienic monitoring. The mentioned algorithm for the fi rst time on the regional level systematizes chains (stages) of proceeding of medical statistical studies in social hygienic monitoring for theoretical and practical substantiation of management solutions. The application of algorithm with its description in article permits, depending on purpose of study, to select characteristics of implementation of hygienic diagnostics of environment and health of population i.e. methodological approaches and techniques of medical statistical analysis available and most effective within the framework of implementing social hygienic monitoring with subsequent realization of administrative regulation of informing authorities, bodies of self-government and population. The listing is presented concerning themes of studies for long standing period of practical activities. The further directions of development of informational analytical activity in social hygienic monitoring.

[Evaluation of health risks of residents of Novokuibyshevsk]. / Otsesnka riska zdorov'ia naseleniia Novokuibyshevska.

The globally accepted procedure for assessing the human health and the special software "MedEcoRISK" programme (Saint Petersburg) were used in Novokuibyshevsk (Samara Region), the center of petroleum-refining and petrochemical industry. The surveys did not yield contradictory results and they were complementary in providing evidence for that the population's health status has become much worse due to high ambient air pollution. The findings were used for basic information in the system of measures to reduce health risks.

[Hygienic assessment of the environment of a territorial industrial complex]. / Gigienicheskaia otsenka sostoianiia okruzhaiushchei sredy territorial'no-promyshlennogo kompleksa.

Hygienic assessment of the time course of changes in environmental pollution has determined Novokuibyshevsk, Samara Region, as an ecologically poor area. Its findings are a primary basis for: 1) systemic stepwise study of an environment-health relationship; 2) elucidation of priority and early undetermined risk factors; 3) development of current measures for environmental sanitation and human health promotion in the specifically studied area; 4) definition of new tasks in the field of hygienic studies.

[Systems of measures targeted at reducing health risk factors for the population]. / Sistema meropriiatii po snizheniiu riskov zdorov'iu naseleniia.

Center for State Sanitary Epidemiological Surveillance in the Samara region developed, tried, and introduced a system of administrative, legal, and economic decisions aimed at reduction of the effects of unfavorable environmental factors on population health. The main directions of the system is reorganization of the structure and administration of sociohygienic monitoring, norm-setting approach, organization of work in accordance with the state order, introduction of a system for evaluating the activities of the Center in cities and regions, optimization of staff, development and introduction of minimum social standards of activity, and realization of goal-oriented complex programs providing sanitary and epidemiological well-being.

[The hygienic conditions in children's and teenagers' institutions]. / Gigienicheskie usloviia v detskikh i podrostkovykh uchrezhdeniiakh.

The leading risk factors in children and teenagers at the educational establishments of Samara Province can be considered to be unfavourable changes that determine the teaching conditions: impairments in an educational process, school routine, dietary deficiencies, nonobservance of sanitary and hygienic requirements for water supply and sewer system, aerothermal and light conditions, for the equipment of workshops and school furniture. With the participation of sanitary surveillance bodies, Samara Province has been introducing (in 1998-1999) a comprehensive assessment of a risk.