[Social-hygienic and professional factors, affecting on the health of workers of the confectionery plant].

In the article there are presented results of the analysis of a state of health of employees of confectionery plant in connection with influence of occupational, social, material and household and health conditioning factor. There have been revealed the risk factors influencing on the state of health and an level of the incidence of workers of the main manufacturing of the factory.

[Diversity of soil mesofauna in Northern Taiga biogeocenosises of the Kamennaya river basin (Karelia)].

The population of soil mesofauna in the basin of the small river subzone of the northern taiga (Karelia) has been investigated. It was shown that indexes of the number and mass of soil mesofauna in the landscape-ecological row ofbiogeocenosises are maximal in floodplain soils. The taxonomic composition and structure of domination of the soil mesofauna population depends on the location of biogeocenosis in the landscape: earthworms are dominants in riverine floodplain biogeocenosises, and larvae of elaterids and spiders prevail in the places outside of floodplains.

[The morbidity of rural medical personnel and its causes].

The article deals with the results of studying the morbidity of rural medical personnel and its causes from 1996 to 2006. The study revealed the characteristics of morbidity and medical biological and social hygienic factors determining the higher level of morbidity of physicians and paramedical personnel. The study data can be used for the development of actual principles of health promotion for rural population with high medical social risk especially in the area of public health management.

[The sociological survey of health and lifestyle among medical academy students].

In the Nizhegorod Medical Academy a sociological survey was conducted to ascertain the attitude of students to their health and lifestyle. The results of the questionnaire survey showed that the majority of future health workers do not seek to follow a healthy lifestyle. The findings were used in the working out of a target complex program "Health of students of the Nizhegorod Medical Academy for 2006-2009" for the future retrospective analysis of activities conducted.

[The sociological survey of health workers morbidity at the multidisciplinary hospital].

Some parameters of the health status of medical workers using a sociological method were studied at a large multidisciplinary hospital of Nizhny Novgorod. The results of self-registration of chronic diseases are indicative of the high level of morbidity in the study group. The differences in the level and structure of chronic pathology as compared with literature data prove the validity of using the sociological method to study the health status of medical workers.