[Workers' health and various approaches to its quantitative evaluation].

A new approach to the assessment of health status of the working people is proposed. Qualitative determinations of the "cost" of body adaptation to occupational and nonoccupational factors could be used as a health standard. The adaptation "cost" was calculated by means of integral indicators, characterizing body system response to human vital activity factors.

[Assessment of the risk of developing ovarian cancer based on individual and family anamnestic data].

A study of individual and family histories of 200 ovarian cancer patients and 200 healthy controls was concerned with evaluation of 274 factors of risk. It yielded 36 most informative ones. An 80% credibility of screening results was demonstrated when a combination of characteristics was used.