Influence of occupational risk factors on health of tire plant workers.

Analysis of health state in connection with work conditions for workers of Voronezh tire plant was based on evaluation of occupational and general morbidity according to medical examination data, hygienic characteristics of occupational factors and working process. Findings are high level of general morbidity among the workers, related to combined influence of physical and chemical occupational hazards. First rank places are occupied by locomotory system diseases (32.3%) and cardiovascular diseases (29.3%). Recommendations cover decrease of unfavorable effects of occupational hazards, minimization of occupational risks, including further improvement of work conditions and implementation of laboratory biochemical methods diagnosing premorbid conditions.

[METHODS OF MODELING TEMPERATURE REGIMES IN TESTS OF POLYMER CONTAINING BUILDING MATERIALS AND FURNITURE FOR HOMES AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS].

This article is devoted to the modeling of temperature conditions in performance of research of polymer containing building materials and furniture. The authors draw attention to the different conditions of modeling used in the existing guidance documents, and provide a unified approach to this problem, namely in the performance of the study to use the temperature regime, which corresponds to the maximum value of the optimum temperature range for residential and industrial premises.

[BLOOD INDICES AT SLAUGHTER OF BIRDS UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF THE OPERATING ENTERPRISES].

Implementation of non-waste technologies at the poultry establishments supposes the involvement of by-products of slaughter of birds, in particular, the blood as a source of protein and unique organic iron. For the feasibility of reasonable approaches to the possible use of birds' blood in the production of technologically acceptable emulsions there was studied and identified by the method of PCR analysis the species composition of microflora in the process of blood collection and storage, as also the environment of the slaughterhouses, there was considered the dynamics of the growth of microorganisms and measures for its limitation.

[Assessment of the influence of socio-economic factors on health and demographic indices].

THE THEME: assessment of the influence of socio-economic factors on health and demographic indicators. OBJECTS: population of municipalities of the Voronezh region. THE NATURE AND AIM OF THE WORK: the justification of the system of measures aimed at stabilizing the medical-demographic situation at the regional level. METHODS: methods of Health Statistics; questionnaire. THE RESULTS OF THE WORK: the low socio-economic status of the population is set in the territories, depressed at the level of demographic development. The contribution of socio-economic indicators in health and demographic situation has been determined Reliable cause-effect relationships between health and demographic indicators and the level of socio-economic development of the population have been identified.

[Monitoring of biological contamination of household water supply objects].

Biological contamination of environmental objects was monitored in 245 monitoring points of the region according to the monitoring observation program. In 2005-2008, the proportion of drinking water samples from the distributing network of household water supply systems, which meet no hygienic standards, is 1.3 to 1.8% and the proportion of those from non-centralized water supply sources is 6.2%, which is due to a weak protectability of aquifers from their surface contamination. Comprehensive assessment of household water supply factors has indicated that water preparation and transportation are key links in the formation of household water supply problems.

[Evaluation of the efficiency of measures to reduce the influence of risk factors on human health].

65% of the region's population is covered by the complex monitoring and control of environmental factors. Chemical contamination of drinking water with iron, manganese, boron, or nitrates makes a 60% contribution to anthropogenic load. Implementation of the measures of a special urban program could reduce the proportion of the drinking water, which did not meet the hygienic standards by sanitary chemical indicators, in Voronezh from 10.2% in 1999 to 8.5% in 2008 and halve the concentration of manganese and iron.

[Monitoring of arthropods of epidemiological and sanitary importance in the city of Voronezh].

The paper analyzes the results of monitoring the number and species composition of arthropods, which are of epidemiological and sanitary important, in the city of Voronezh in 1998 to 2007. Many years' periodical observations have revealed the main places of breeding for blood sucking insects and ticks, their ecological features, including these under antropogenic stress. There is evidence for the changes in the species composition and the influence of some species on the recent epidemiological situation, which permits the approaches to and tactics of preventive measures to be corrected at the present budgetary stage oriented to outcome, with emphasis on the most significant sections of work.

[Hygienic problems of residential and public buildings].

A questionnaire survey made in different Voronezh population groups suggests that they spend 80 to 90% of time in the enclosed space. The greatest contribution to the chemical load caused by ambient air pollution made by production areas (54.9%) in the adult able-bodied population and by dwelling areas (56.0-86.9%) in children, adolescents, and pensioners. Pollution of ambient air (K = 9.19) is pronounced to a lesser degree than that of the air of office buildings (K = 12.49), which suggests that there are internal contamination sources in the closed space. The results of the questionnaire survey of respondents suggest that 20% suffer from allergic diseases and 7% of them associate these diseases with dwelling area contamination.

[The medical-biological evaluation of the bread made of bioactivated wheat grain]. / Mediko-biologicheskaia otsenka khleba iz bioaktivirovannogo zerna pshenitsy.

The brief description of a new kind of bread made of bioactivated wheat grain and obtained by the authors is given. The main stages of carrying out the medical-biological evaluation test of the product on white rats and its results are described. The data of the clinical tests on the new bread application by 45 patients with different somatic pathologies are given. They acknowledge its good digestion and high clinical efficiency.

[Genotyping of spotted tick fever rickettsiae, detected in Russia and Kazakhstan]. / Genotipirovanie rikketsii gruppy kleshchevoi piatnistoi likhoradki, vyiavlennykh v Rossii i Kazakhstane.

R. slovaca was first detected in the ticks D. marginatus gathered in the Stavropol Territory and the Voronezh Region (European Russia). The recently discovered rickettsial genotype DnS14 was first found in the ticks D. silvarum from Buryatia and D. niveus from the Karaganda Region (Central Kazakhstan). The rickettsial genotype RpA4 was most common in the ticks of the genus Dermacentor in Russia and Central Kazakhstan. An analysis of the spread of rickettsias of the STF group shows their close ecological relation to definite types of Ixodes. The rickettsias R. slovaca and RpA4 co-exist in the ticks D. marginatus and D. reticulatus (the western part of a Dermacentor area in Eurasia) and DnS14 and R. sibirica do in D. nuttalli and D. silvarum (the eastern part of the area). D. marginatus and D. reticulatus in the areas characterized by the most specific saturation of a Dermacentor area (the south of West Siberia) are carriers and reservoir of R. sibirica. The rickettsial genotype DnS28 may be now considered to be environmentally associated with one species of ticks--D. nuttalli. At least 6 genotypes of STF rickettsias--R. sibirica, R. astrahan fever (R. conorii), R. slovaca, RpA4, DnS14, DnS28--has been currently identified in Russia and Kazakhstan.

[Main difficulties and advances in State sanitary and epidemiological supervision of occupational health in Voronezh region]. / Osnovnye problemy i perspektivy razvitiia gosudarstvennogo sanitarno-épidemiologicheskogo nadzora po gigiene truda v Voronezhskoi oblasti.

Creation of favorable work conditions necessitates gradual change-over to their specification on major industrial workplaces with intensive occupational hazards.

[Physiological evaluation of work done by female hothouse workers]. / Fiziologicheskaia otsenka truda teplichnits.

The authors studied influence of work conditions and temperature mode on functional state of stove female workers. The results include leading factor of work operations, that determinates work hardiness and jeopardy class for work conditions. Physiologic research demonstrated changes in functional state of some body systems, especially cardiovascular and neuromuscular ones.

[Effects of workplace air pollution on health of workers engaged in the production of nitrogen-ammonium-phosphorus fertilizers]. / Vliianie zagriazneniia vozdukha rabochei zony na zdorov'e rabotaiushchikh pri proizvodstve nitroammofoski.

The authors studied work conditions in JSC "Minudobrenija" workshop for nitrogen-phosphorus fertilizers production, revealed risk factors resulting in higher incidence of locomotory and respiratory diseases.

[Morbidity features and evaluation of health risk for galvanic shop workers]. / Osobennosti zabolevaemosti i otsenka riska zdorov'iu rabochikh gal'vanicheskikh tsekhov.

Hygienic evaluation covered influence of occupational factors on morbidity of galvanic shop workers. The authors calculated the relative risk and the individual carcinogenic risk, defined the priority occupational diseases.