[Main results of research concerning asbestos-related diseases in Kazakhstan Republic].

Problem of safety in asbestos usage attracts close attention of specialists and agencies responsible for public health preservation nowadays. According to European researchers, studies of uncontrolled usage of amphibole asbestos demonstrate high risk of asbestosis, lung cander and pleural mesothelioma among the workers and population exposed. The article covers results of research concerning influence of chrysotile asbestos on the workers, problems of asbestos-related diseases formation.

[Problems of soils pollution with solid industrial waste in Kazakhstan].

The problem of recycling and disposal of solid waste from metallurgical, energy and petrochemical industries is becoming more acute problem for Kazakhstan. Violations of hygiene requirements concerning the placement and operation of landfills increase the area of contaminated soil and can become a threat to environmental safety of the population in industrial centers. The research was aimed to evaluate soil contamination in the cities and towns of Kazakhstan Republic and to mark out health risk areas.

[Occupational morbidity in Kazakhstan].

The main principle of the whole health care system in Kazakhstan is joint responsibility of state, employer and employee for the health state. Coordination of occupational therapeutic service is maintained by National Center of Industrial hygiene and occupational diseases. The country appears to have registered 6919 patients with "occupational disease" diagnosis, with new 500-600 cases register annually.

[Influence of some environmental factors in urban areas on public health (review of literature)].

The authors present results of studies concerning influence of environmental factors in urban areas on public health. Modern men indoors and outdoors are exposed simultaneously to multiple hazards with levels sometimes exceeding physiologic tolerance, and some of these hazards could be assigned to risk factors. Preventive medicine requires new theoretic basis for prophylactic activities grounded on medical ecologic and biologic views explaining cause-effect relationships between mechanisms of human health in connection with environmental hazards.

[Neuro-muscular apparatus state in lumbosacral radiculopathy in miners].

Based on clinical and electrophysiologic studies, the authors analysed neuro-muscular apparatus of "spinal center--periphery" axis for miners with radicular pain caused by occupational lumbosacral radiculopathy. Findings are that constantly irritated receptors in lumbar motor segment during occupational activities alter habitual motor stereotype and cause specific compensatory muscular reactions, rearrangement of motor activity in segmental apparatus.

[State of autonomous nervous system in vibration disease in miners].

The authors diagnosed dysfunction of autonomous vascular system with affected neuromuscular apparatus, with electrophysiologic polymorphism, degree of nerve trunks disorders in miners having concomitant diseases.

[Some mechanisms of vegetative regulation of neuro-muscular transmission in lumbar radiculopathy among miners].

The authors present results of neurophysiologicstudies of peripheral part of motor analyser in miners exposed to complex of occupational hazards. Some mechanisms of vegetative regulation in disordered neuro-muscular transmission are revealed.