[Preparing new edition of the manual "Occupational health criteria for assessing and classification working conditions"]. / O podgotovke novoi redaktsii rukovodstva "Gigienicheskie kriterii otsenki i klassifikatsiia uslovii truda."

Revising the Manual P2.2.755-99 is due to new scientific data and to necessary additions and changes of some parts in Hygienic classification for work conditions. The authors received 74 appreciations from all of Russian Federation and suggestions on improving the hygienic criteria. Those suggestions are thoroughly analyzed.

[Syndrome of "unhealthy" accommodations as a hygienic problem (review of foreign literature)]. / Sindrom "nezdorovogo" pomeshcheniia kak gigienicheskaia problema (obzor zarubezhnoi literatury).

The article provides an analysis of medical literature data referred to the epidemiology and hygienic value of 'the syndrome of unhealthy shelter' (SUS). Issues related to architectural and design properties, various industrial and non-industrial factors, personal characteristics of the staff in relation to the SUS genesis are discussed in detail, as well as the SUS general and specific symptoms' dependence on the intensity of all these factors. Methodologies for hygienic analysis of SUS are also proposed.

[Analysis of major achievements in the field of occupational hygiene and occupational pathology in the USSR and abroad]. / Analiz vazhneishikh dostizhenii v oblasti gigieny truda i profpatologii v SSSR i za rubezhom.

The article presents a review of both Soviet and international medical literature on recent developments in labour hygiene and occupational health for 1986-1990, as well as major trends in this area of medical science and cardinal tendencies in research. Analysis is given of occupational diseases' prevalence in the Soviet Union and other countries.