[A study of the 'effective' psychotherapist image and expectations about psychotherapy among the employees of hazardous occupations (policemen)].

Backgraund: The objective of the present study was to estimate the expectations about psychotherapy in terms of social and medical rehabilitation among the employees of hazardous occupations suffering from the consequences of a psychological trauma.

Material And Methods: A total of 100 subjects employed by various departments of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) were recruited to participate in the study. Their age varied from 19 to 35 (mean 25.

[The correction of the fluorine load in caries].

The authors discuss the problem of fluorine load correction in caries. They claim that fluorine load of the body as regards caries prevention should never surpass the safe levels of total daily fluorine consumption. In children aged over 4 the safe level of total daily fluorine consumption is 2.

[Course work as means of developing logical thinking in the instruction of medical students].

The carrying out of course assignments by medical students at the chair of social hygiene and public health administration is proposed for the wide application as a means of promoting the development of creative thinking in students. The course assignments fulfilled on the basis of data on regional peculiarities, characteristics of the population's health and health services while approximating students to the real practical activity promote the development of skills in the analysis, synthesis, generalization, concretization and other intellectual abilities absolutely indispensable for the future doctors.

[The health-promoting tendency of systematic swimming exercises in preschool institutions].

Systematic swimming exercises in child preschool establishments increase toughening of children, resistance to unfavourable factors, and also favourably influence anthropometric indices. Besides, collective health indicators in such groups (health index, specific weight of children who get ill frequently, the presence of the antigen protective titre, mean duration of one case of a disease) were reliably better.

[Structural and histochemical characteristics of different variants of the perimuscularization of the femoral vein in an experiment].

Structural and histochemical changes in the region of perivenous muscular constrictors created by means of experimental perimuscularization of the femoral vein were studied and compared. Thirty-two mongrel dogs were operated on. In 18 dogs, perimuscularization was made by placing the femoral vein beneath a flap from the medial head of the musculus quadriceps femoris.