Gigiena i sanitariia
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Gigiena i sanitariia · Mar 2004
[Hygienic optimization of the use of chemical protective means on railway transport].
The paper presents data characterizing the working conditions of railway workers. It shows that there is the greatest levels of noise and vibration, the burden and intensity of work. ⋯ The working conditions determine a significant industrial risk of railway workers since the prevention of health abnormalities by using chemical protective means is a topical problem. The priority lines of hygienic rationale for optimization the choice and use of chemical protective means for workers exposed to occupational hazards are determined.
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Gigiena i sanitariia · Mar 2004
[Present day problems in the elaboration of documents regulating sanitary-epidemiological safety of children and adolescents].
The drastic urbanization of modern society, the wide use of new teaching methods and programs at the educational establishments, the emergence of new types of pre-school educational institutions (PEI), the change of age-specific composition of children in both PEI and educational establishments require that new documents on the basic types of educational establishments should be worked out. The financing of work into preparing sanitary legislative documents has not been solved so far. In connection with the adoption of the Federal Law "On Technical Regulation", while preparing the technical regulations, society is to guarantee a child the development environment, good growth conditions, including the optimum level of functions.
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Gigiena i sanitariia · Mar 2004
[Physical development of school children in the Volgograd educational system].
The physical development of schoolchildren living in different man-made load areas of Volgograd, a large industrial town and going to different educational establishments was studied and evaluated. There were more children with retarded biological development and morphofunctional abnormalities in the high man-made loaded areas. There were also differences in the physical development of pupils from different types of educational establishments: among the pupils of general educational schools there were more children with retarded biological development and morphofunctional abnormalities. These differences are greater in poor ecological areas.
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Gigiena i sanitariia · Mar 2004
[Assessment of human health risk due to environmental pollution in the city of Orsk].
The established tense ecological situation in the town of Orsk presents a serious human threat. The use of methods for assessing the risk has allowed the authors to determine the values of carcinogenic and noncarcinogenic risks. ⋯ The high concentrations of dust, phenol, nitrogen dioxide, and carbon oxide cause a major damage to human health. The established specific values of this risk are of relative significance.