[Problem of overweight in underground workers of coal industry in Kuzbass].

The authors revealed changes in weight-height values to increase among underground workers of "SIBENCO" JSC. Ageing appeared to associate with higher weight irrespective of occupational group.

[Methodic approaches to evaluation of individual life quality of coal industry workers].

To study influence of social factors on life quality of coal industry workers, the authors designed a new method assessing individual life quality in miners, based on life quality assessment suggested by WHO. According to the study, life quality value averaged 27.7% in the examinees. According to the scale presented, average life quality level in the miners is low. Variability of life quality levels in the miners is determined mostly by social satisfaction index and health satisfaction index. Anxiety about health and quality of social care appeared to be main factors of low life quality in coal industry workers. Keywords: life quality, coal industry workers, psychologic component of health.

[Total broncho-alveolar lavage in respiratory diseases among coal mining workers].

To prevent progressive lung ventilation disorders, to lower inflammatory activity in respiratory diseases, to prevent pneumoconiosis in coal miners, total broncho-alveolar lavage was included into therapeutic and prophylactic measures system. Results are reduction of lung ventilation disorders progression over 5-year observation, lower intensity of tracheo- bronchial inflammation in miners with chronic respiratory diseases.

[Methodic approaches to pharmaco-economic evaluation of vibration disease inpatient treatment in miners].

The authors justify pharmaco-economic evaluation of vibration disease inpatient treatment in miners, as miners' health improvement necessitates effective use of available means and implementation of economic management methods. Qualitative medical and pharmaceutic care in miners with vibration disease requires considerable financial, material and manpower resources of medical organization.

[Evaluation of social demographic aspect of life quality of coal extraction workers in Kouzbass enterprises].

For assessing influence of social factors on life quality of workers in coal extraction enterpirses of Kemerovo region, the authors used questionnaire SF-36. Life quality parameters of workers engaged into coal extraction in Kemerovo region appeared to lower with age from 20 to 64 years. Life quality parameters on scales of pain, physical functioning and general health are invertedly correlated with age and length of service in hazardous work conditions for coal extraction workers. Life quality of the miners is influenced by the following factors: marital status, educational level and income level of the workers.

[Life quality in individuals having occupational diseases caused by various occupational factors].

The article presents main results of studies concerning life quality in individuals having chronic occupational diseases of important social value. Life quality in patients with chronic mercurial intoxication and dust bronchitis appeared to result from personal, social and psychologic features.

[Features of subjective evaluation of life quality in individuals having occupational diseases].

The article covers main results of study concerning life quality in patients with vibration disease and neurosensory deafness. The authors analyzed psychologic types of attitude to the disease, assessed physical, psychologic and social state in patients with occupational diseases, determined role of psychologic component in treatment of such patients.

[Age features of epidemiology of arterial hypertension in workers of the coal-mining enterprises].

The analysis of age features of prevalence of an arterial hypertensia in the basic professional groups of the coal-mining enterprises was carried out. In total 1575 workers of collieries and cuts of Kuzbas united in 9 professional groups participated in the research. The results of research demonstrated the distinctions of age structure in the professional groups, testifying about expressed professional senescence among workers of mines, which reveals itself in the decrease in relative density of persons of 50+ years. In these groups with the expressed professional senescence the decrease in relative density of persons with an arterial hypertensia--so-called effect of the "healthy worker", in turn, is observed.

[Toxic melanoderma in chronic intoxication with trinitrotoluene]. / Toksicheskaia melanodermiia pri khronicheskoi intoksikatsii trinitrotoluolom.

Hyperkinetic atactic syndrome, an atypical neurologic disorder of a chemical origin, was reported in connection with trinitrotoluene-induced melanoderma. Decreased level of urinary 17-hydroxycorticoids stresses the failure of one biochemical link in melanin synthesis, but proves the same pathogenic origin of both melanopathy manifestations. Antioxidant therapy in the pathogenesis treatment of melanoderma is considered valuable.

[Experience of Health Protection Center on organization of medical care for coal miners in Kuzbass]. / Opyt raboty tsentra okhrany zdorov'ia po organizatsii meditsinskoi pomoshchi shakhteram Kuzbassa.

The authors present materials on activities of medical and sanitary center on contemporary phase of economic development under reforms of health care and coal industry.