Health problems of workers of harmful industries

Abstract

Current measures to preserve the health of workers are the study of the early stages of the formation of pathology, the definition of professional and occupational risk groups. Features of the health status of workers is characterized by an increase in the risk of parallel ongoing chronic diseases that reduce the importance of the quality of life of workers of harmful industries.
Workers of harmful industries continue to have a high level of morbidity, indicating the influence of harmful production factors on their health, where the etiological structure is dominated by the influence of factors such as physical exertion on the musculoskeletal system and cardiovascular system (overstrain, heavy work), dust and gas pollution of the working environment.
The leading detection of diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (38%), diseases of the circulatory system (31%), diseases of the eye and its accessory apparatus (12%), which requires the adoption of therapeutic and recreational measures, including highquality medical examination of the contingent working in harmful conditions.