[Cancer morbidity risks among workers of asbestos-cement productions].

The retrospective assessment of morbidity rates and cancer pathology risks in workers of asbestosis-cement enterprises of Ukraine has been made. It was established that annual cancer morbidity among workers makes 88,1 per 100 000 of workers (RR = 0.26, CI 95 % 0.06-1.01). The most often cancer pathology was located in digestive organs (48.1%), respiratory organs (18.5%) (lung cancer--11.1%). The mesothelioma of pleura, peritoneum and pericardium were not found. The risks (odds ratio--OR) of cancer morbidity were increased for such organs as: respiratory organs (OR = 2.37), skin (OR = 1.78), digestive organs (OR = 1.34).

[Occupational morbidity in Ukraine].

The authors analyzed occupational morbidity in Ukraine over 1990-2003, in comparison with european data. Regions with higher and lower occupational morbidity were identified. Analysis covered occupational diseases for certain industries in accordance with exposure to dust, chemicals, noise, vibration, physical strain.

[The morbidity in preschool children living on the territory of Rovno Province subjected to radioactive contamination as a result of the accident at the Chernobyl Atomic Electric Power Station]. / Zabolevaemost' detei doshkol'nogo vozrasta, prozhivaiushchikh na territorii Rivnenskoi oblasti, podvergsheisia radioaktivnomu zagriazneniiu v rezul'tate avarii na Chernobyl'skoi AES.

The morbidity was studied of 3000 preschool children born and inhabiting the territory of six Rovno Province districts belonging to the "Western trail" of the Chernobyl accident. It was found that the children born in 1986-1987 showed a 1.5-3 times increase of the morbidity as compared with the pre-accident period.

[Problems in improving the public health of a rural area based on a study of statistical data on population health]. / Voprosy sovershenstvovaniia zdravookhraneniia sel'skogo raiona na osnove izucheniia statisticheskikh dannykh o zdorov'e naseleniia.

The dynamics of health indices of the Khust District (Transcarpathian Province [correction of Zacarpathye region]) population was studied from 1970 through 1990. It is concluded that statistical data on the increase of morbidity are related to improvement of diagnostics of nosological entities related to increase of the availability of doctors, nursing personnel, number of beds in the district. Reserves of further medical services to the population are discussed.

[The sanitary hygiene conditions of the work and morbidity characteristics of workers in the sulfur industry]. / Sanitarno-gigienicheskie usloviia truda i osobennosti zabolevaemosti rabochikh sernogo proizvodstva.

Major forms of morbidity with temporary disability were studied in the professional groups of workers engaged in sulphur autoclave production. It was established that the morbidity rates increased depending on the age and length of service factors. There was neurosis-related morbidity with temporary, disability caused by the toxic action of the sulphur compounds on the health state. In workers with greater length of service disorders in the oxidation-reduction processes, statistically proved decrease of the sulfhydryl groups' contents in the blood and blood peroxidase activity suppression, were found. A set of measures was proposed towards health-related improvements of the labour conditions.

[Disability among the population: problems and the ways of their solution (review of the literature)]. / Invalidnost' naseleniia: problemy i puti resheniia (obzor literatury).

There are many works in modern literature, which are devoted to disability problems but, unfortunately, they are fragmentary. Comparatively few works are devoted to the studies of the influence of sociohygienic factors on the level of disability among the population. That is why it is necessary to conduct complex sociohygienic surveys aimed at studying disability trends. The data of these studies permit one to work out measures aimed at reducing disability and to substantiate the ways of its prevention.