[Level, structure and dynamics of combined forms of occupational diseases among coal miners of Donetsk region].

The authors presented data on levels, structure and dynamics of combined occupational diseases in coal miners of Donetsk region in Ukraine, analyzed possible mechanisms of such diseases.

[Occupational aging (biological age modeling)].

Based on workers' biologic age, the authors created a systemic model of general and occupational ablebodiedness and tested the model on selective determination of biologic age among workers of various Ukrainian regions. The results proved increase in occupational aging of the population. General and occupational ablebodiedness in males of the select was lower than that in the females.

[The characteristics of the work activities, their autonomic support and the work capacity of coal mine workers ill with chronic bronchitis].

In miners with chronic bronchitis, diminution of bodily energy reserves does not permit optimizing their functional state in full measure. Patients are provided with ample opportunity to realize various forms of behaviour in order that they might continue their labour activities under usual conditions they are accustomed to. Exclusion from the activity those labour operations of high energy content, lowering of density of work, and increase in duration/number of breaks for rest--all such measures serve to secure professional activity.

[The functional status and work capacity of coal mine workers with a history of an acute respiratory disease].

Acute respiratory diseases weaken bodily resistance to factors of industrial environment and activities. In subjects with vago- and normotonic type regulation, high level of adaptive capability permits the overstrain states to be avoided during the first post-illness days. The whole process of minimization of cost of the primary reaction of an organism gets completed by the end of the first week.

[The development of work regimens for miners in high-temperature coal mine faces for the prevention of heat-related lesions].

In an in-plant setting, the level of functional tension of an organism is almost half determined with a high degree of reliability by a character of ergothermal loading. With the work performed becoming harder and more strenuous by one unit of measuring, the air temperature changing by 1 degree C relative to the maximum allowable level (MAL), and labour time coefficient by 0.1, changes in heart rate amount to 9.