[Problems of improving the assessment of health risk for assurance of the sanitary and epidemiological well-being].

There are considered the current problems of improving population health risk assessment for assurance of the sanitary and epidemiological well-being. Their solution permit to improve the risk assessment methodology in Russia and overcome unnecessary barriers in the way of a practical application of the criteria of acceptable risk and damage to health to support management decisions.

[To the 90th anniversary of State Sanitary Epidemiologic Service Formation in Russian Federation].

State Educational Institution of Higher Professional Training of the Ministry of Health Care and Social Development Foundation of Russian Sanitary Epidemiologic Service dates back to September, 15, 1922, when a Decree on Sanitary Institutions of the Republic was signed. Afterwards the institutions of Sanitary Epidemiologic Service were improved: foundation of State Sanitary Inspectorate (1933-1951), approval of new concept of the Service and intensification of State Sanitary Inspectorate (1951-1991), foundation of State Sanitary Epidemiologic Service, centralization of management and financing of the Service, formation of Sanitary Epidemiologic Legislation (1991-2004), further restructurization of Sanitary Epidemiologic Service in accordance with administrative changes in Russia (2004 until now).

[Disturbances of bone tissue metabolism in elderly and senile patients after stomach resection].

The authors have examined 104 elderly patients after one of operations on the stomach. The mineral metabolism, biochemical and X-ray findings were investigated. Osteoporosis was observed more often in patients after Billroth-II resection of the stomach, rarer after Billroth-I operation and more rarely in patients after pylorus-saving resection of the stomach.

[Hygienic characteristics of foodstuffs containing genetically modified components].

The paper analyzes the results of the investigations of raw foods, foodstuffs for genetically modified components, conducted by the state sanitary and epidemiological service of the Russian Federation during its current sanitary inspection. The presented materials cover 2003-2004. The findings suggest that there is a great deal of foods containing genetically modified sources on the market and show the priority groups of foodstuffs and the distribution of these foods on the territory of the Russian Federation.

[Contemporary health care for working population ].

The article presents results and promising priority lines of activity in health care for workers in Russia facing new economic situation.

[Characteristics of actual nutrition and health of children in regions of the Russian Federation].

In the article the problems of actual nutrition and state of Russian children health are considered. The carried out examinations of the vitaminous status have shown presence of a deficit of vitamins E, B1, B6, PP, and also calcium, phosphorus, iron lactate, zinc in daily ration of children. The inadequate organization of C-vitaminization of boiled food in children establishments, low supplying of learning schools by a hot food, insufficient use of products from suer milk, fish, juices, meat products, butter, vegetables, fruit, eggs in a nutrition of children is marked.

[Improving the evaluation of the efficiency of hygiene departments of State Sanitary and Epidemiologic Surveillance Centers].

Methodological, technological, and organization characteristics of efficiency evaluation of specialists and hygienic departments engaged in a State Sanitary Surveillance (SSS) Center of the first level of management are presented. Main notions concerning the efficiency of SSS are formulated. A method for quantitative evaluation of the quality is offered, allowing comparison of compatible and equivalent parameters.

[Present-day hygienic problems of industrial waste utilization and ways of their solution].

The paper describes the problem in sanitary-safety solid waste removal and utilization and gives ways of its solution.

[Monitoring nutrition and the quality of the food products in the social-hygiene monitoring system in the Russian Federation].

The results of monitoring of population dietary intake and quality of foods in Russia in last years are discussed. Main problems in dietary intake of population are high animal fat intake and slightly low level of high quality protein intake. Deficits of some vitamins, minerals and dietary fiber intake are also first priority problems in nutrition of population.

[The cholera outbreak in one of the central regions of Dagestan].

The data on the epidemiological analysis of cholera cases in the epicenter of this infection in the Daghestan, viz. in the village of Gerga, Kaiakent District, are presented. The outbreak of cholera was due to the import of this infection by pilgrims from their hajj to Saudi Arabia.

[The organization of an epidemiological surveillance of HIV infection in Krasnodar Territory].

For the first time a case of AIDS was detected in the Krasnodar Territory of the USSR, and the presence of HIV infection in homosexuals, foreign students, and promiscuous persons was established. To study the spread of HIV infection, 5 diagnostic laboratories were created and 5 routes for the transportation of sera were organized. This permitted the screening of the population in 1988 with the complete coverage of groups to be placed under surveillance.