[Evaluating quality and efficiency of workers' medical examinations].

The authors suggested complex of parameters that characterize both quality and efficiency of periodic and additional medical examinations, and could be a basis for management decisions to increase effectiveness of periodic and additional medical examinations. The measures are suggested to harmonize periodic and additional medical examinations.

[Personnel and bed supplies for Occupational Diseases Centers in Russian Federation].

The author presents calculations of required quantities of beds and staffers for Occupational Diseases Centers. Those calculations are based on scientific norms concerning activities of doctors in the Centers and number of staffers exposed to work conditions that do not meet sanitary and hygienic regulations on Russian Federation territory. Evidence is that most territories face actual staffers and beds numbers much lower than quantities necessary for effective occupational medical care.

[Work and health state of working population in Moscow].

The article shows changes in employed population of Moscow over a period of economic changes, in employment structure by economicbranches withsubsequent reduction of individuals employed in industrial branches. Based on analysis of health parameters of employed population according to official statistics, the authors demonstrated trends in those parameters change, with the accent that those changes are less negative in Moscow than generally in Russia.

[Some approaches to informatics in occupational therapy service].

The authors present results obtained by local occupational therapy centers and concerning tests of new account forms designed by Occupational Medicine Research Institute with RAMSc for informational background of occupational therapy service.