[Forecasting decrease in performance and health disorders under exposure to work intensity factors in accordance with work conditions class].

Results of complex physiologic and ergonomic, clinical and functional studies helped to justify approaches to quantitative evaluation and assessment of posssible decrease in performance and health disorders in workers in accordance with work conditions class of mental work. Linear regression dependence was established between work intensity class and performance decrease. The linear regression equation obtained enables to calculate a percentage of performance decrease in various work intensity classes. Intensive direct correlation was revealed between work intensity value and a percentage of individuals with diagnosed occupationally induced diseases.

[The physiological features of overstrain formation in mental work and its prevention].

Psychophysiological and biochemical studies have shown that significant neuro- emotional loads produce such functional status, which can be called overstrain. It was found out at the first time that the physiological and biochemical characteristics of overstrain based on the main parameters in mental work. The research proved the preventive measures of human body overstrain and can help to prevent the diseases related to work.

[Physiologic and ergonomic aspects of social and hygienic monitoring of workers' performance and health].

The article tackles necessity of physiologic and ergonomic research in system of social and hygienic monitoring of workers' performance and health. A presented scheme covers physiologic and ergonimic aspects: monitoring of work process factors; monitoring of workers' performance and functional state. The authors formulated theoretic orientation of the problem and demonstrated scientific and practical importance of physiologic and ergonomic monitoring.

[Features of overexertion formation due to high psychoemotional strain and shift work].

Physiologic studies proved that considerable psychoemotional load in shift work and longer working shifts lead to the certain functional state called overexertion. The authors are first to set biochemical and physiologic characteristics by main parameters for this state in mental workers. According to the authors, physiologic features of overexertion should be evaluated from the viewpoint of coordinated diurnal rhythms, internal and intersystem communications in central nervous and cardiovascular systems, functional levels.

[Methodic approaches to determining the level of occupational fitness in jobs prone to trauma].

The article deals with main methods to evaluate functional state of various body systems and with the methods-based criteria of occupational fitness for miscellaneous activities. Examination of 11 types of jobs prone to trauma helped to specify integral parameter for occupational selection.

[The probability of impaired health in workers exposed to occupational hazards]. / Veroiatnost' narusheniia zdorov'ia rabotaiushchikh on vozdeistviia neblagopriiatnykh faktorov trudovogo protsessa.

Complex descriptive, physiologic and hygienic studies covered various occupational groups of physical and mental work and revealed that health disorders probability depends on intensity of occupational factors. Increase in the intensity results in higher physiologic expenditure and greater incidence of occupational diseases. Symptoms of disorders appeared to depend on specificity of occupational factors.

[Effect of working shift timing and different workload on development of fatigue in workers]. / Osobennosti formirovaniia utomleniia u rabotnikov s razlichnoi stepeníu napriazhennosti truda v zavisimosti ot prodolzhitelnosti rabochei smeny.

The authors studied functional changes of central nervous and cardiovascular systems among operators having variable work strain (airlines dispatchers, operators of robot complexes, TV operators) and changeable duration of working shift (8 and 12 hours). Analysis of the materials considered work strain in the occupational groups (I, II and III degrees of strain) and duration of the working shift. The results proved that the fatigue degree depends on the work strain degree and duration of the working shift, so prophylaxis and normal work duration could be set.

[State of the circulatory system in sailors as an indicator of adaptation to long sea voyage]. / Sostoianie sistemy krovoobrashcheniia u moriakov kak pokazatel' adaptatsii k usloviiam dlitel'nykh morskikh perekhodov

The peculiarities of the circulatory functions were examined in sailors following nautical voyages of varying duration and directly on board during a 6-month cruise. Over 1200 persons were subjected to the examination. The overall morbidity was analyzed in a contingent of about 6000 persons. The whole material was statistically processed. The sailors were found to develop hypotensive reactions during the voyage that persisted following its termination. Cruises lasting over 2-3 months cause a significant tension of the adaptation mechanisms in the sailors, thus favouring the formation of persistent hypotensive states, inadequate reactions of the arterial pressure and heart rate, ECG changes that reflect the impairment of the functional state of the myocardium, etc. A lack of adaptation to cruises exceeding 2-3 months was established. The functional state of the cardiovascular system of sailors is considered to be one of the leading criteria for substantiating physiologically permissible duration of cruises.