[Hygienic evaluation of health risk for female workers of stock-raising enterprise].

The article presents results of study concerning work conditions of female workers engaged into stock-raising enterprises of Tatarstan Republic. Findings are that major occupational hazards in the female workers are unfavorable microclimate, chemical hazards contaminating ambient air of workplace and high noise level.

[Childhood allergic morbidity in a town with developed petrochemical industry].

The degree of ambient pollution was studied in a town with developed petrochemical industry and allergic morbidity in its pediatric population. The specific features of the pattern and course of allergic diseases were revealed in children in relation to the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of ambient pollution. The findings permit elaboration of practical measures aimed at lowering the influence of environmental factors and to improve the health status in children.

[Study of allergic morbidity in children of female workers from various fields of national economy].

To study the factors contributing to the development of allergic disease in children has recently become of current importance. To determine the indirect influence of maternal working environmental factors on allergic morbidity in children, the authors have examined the working conditions and morbidity of female workers engaged in that or that field of national economy and the health status and allergic diseases in children. The variance analysis was made.

[Occupational factors in parents and morbidity in their children].

Nonspecific resistance and the incidence of allergic diseases were studied in children living in areas with varying ambient air pollution, whose parents were exposed before conception to deleterious occupational factors at chemical and petrochemical enterprises. Nonspecific resistance was found to reduce drastically in children of female workers of chemical and petrochemical enterprises. In the children of female workers of the above enterprises, the incidence of allergic diseases was significantly higher (p < 0.