[Major trends in personnel selection in the regional public health system].

Optimization of public health staff provision cannot be solved from the viewpoint of quantitative criteria. Processes running in this system are associated with changes in organization, technological, financial mechanisms and will inevitably lead to changes in the staff policy.

[Effects of smoking on the external respiration system in adolescents and young adults].

The specific features of the function and apparatus of external respiration were studied in adolescent and juvenile smokers and non-smokers. Ninety three boys aged 14-16 years who were 8-10--form pupils and 130 young men aged 19-23 years who were University students were examined. It was found that 38.

[The protective reaction of external respiratory system to the long-term action of ecological factors].

Analyzes physiological manifestations and mechanisms of defense reaction of the external respiration system in response to two ecological factors: low air temperature and dust. Clinically healthy men (without clinical and laboratory signs of lung disease) were examined, living or working under conditions of low temperature or high dust content in the air. These two factors cause mobilization of reserve tissue of respiratory compartments of the lungs by involving the reserve acini in ventilation.

[Main positions with respect to the formation of the planning and norm-setting basis of medical provision].

Concept on the formation of the design and norm-setting basis of medical service has been developed in order to improve planning and balance between the scope of rendered services and their financial provision.