[Physician continuing education on occupational diseases as an integral part of the national project "Health Promotion"].

The author's concepts are evaluated positively and additional organizational and practical recommendations are suggested to increase quality of doctors' postgraduate training in occupational therapy.

[Scientific activities of Occupational Medicine Department with St Petersburg Medical Academy for Postgraduate Education].

The article deals with materials devoted to 80th anniversary of scientific activities of Occupational Medicine Department with St Petersburg Medical Academy for Postgraduate Education. Theoretic, scientifical and practical data on achievements on various stages of longstanding history are presented. The authors prove the research carried by the Department to be important and promising for occupational hygiene and industrial medicine.

[Results of epidemiological research in occupational morbidity].

The authors present materials on real prevalence of occupational diseases, calculate the diseases' share per economically active population, demonstrate thorough analysis of occupational morbidity in major industrial city, prove positive role of Occupational Pathology Center.

[Indicators of occupational morbidity in relation to economically active population].

The authors suggest using 10,000 economically active inhabitants instead of 10,000 working inhabitants for calculation of occupational morbidity parameters, as the first term is wider than the second one excessively used now. The parameter suggested is more objective, provides a universal approach to evaluation of occupational morbidity level and, therefore, enables to compare the parameters for various states.

[Prevalence and prognosis of occupational morbidity in workers of the construction materials industry].

This study revealed a great number of patients facing occupational diseases in building materials production and suggested the random method to calculate their prevalence.