Self-assessment by medical workers of the degree of influence of working conditions on the development of occupational diseases
https://doi.org/10.31089/1026-9428-2019-59-8-463-467
Abstract
Introduction. The activities of health workers are associated with the impact of many harmful factors that lead to loss of health. Compared with other professional groups, health care workers are ill longer and harder, which may be due to polymorbidity pathology.
The aim of the study based on the survey data to study the representation of health workers about working conditions and to identify their impact on the formation of occupational diseases.
Materials and methods. In order to get a real idea of the attitude of medical workers to their working conditions in 2018, an anonymous survey was conducted of 1129 doctors and 776 employees of secondary and junior medical personnel working in health care institutions in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Krasnoyarsk, Vologda and Orel.
Results. Research of working conditions and health of physicians allowed to establish that work in medical institutions imposes considerable requirements to an organism of working, its physical condition and endurance, volume of operational and long-term memory, ability to resist to mental, moral and ethical overloads.
Conclusions: The most important method of combating the development of occupational diseases is their prevention. Organizational and preventive measures should be aimed primarily at monitoring the working conditions and health of medical staff .
About the Authors
N. N. Petrukhin
North-West Scientific Center for Hygiene and Public Health; North-West State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikova
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Nikolai N. Petruhin, doctor of profpathology, postgraduate student of the Department of occupational health, 4, 2nd Sovetskaya str., St. Petersburg, Russia, 191036; 47, Piskarevsky Ave., St. Petersburg, Russia, 195067
O. N. Andreenko
North-West Scientific Center for Hygiene and Public Health
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
4, 2nd Sovetskaya str., St. Petersburg, Russia, 191036
I. V. Boyko
North-West Scientific Center for Hygiene and Public Health; North-West State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikova
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
4, 2nd Sovetskaya str., St. Petersburg, Russia, 191036; 47, Piskarevsky Ave., St. Petersburg, Russia, 195067
S. V. Grebenkov
North-West Scientific Center for Hygiene and Public Health
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
4, 2nd Sovetskaya str., St. Petersburg, Russia, 191036
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Petrukhin N.N., Andreenko O.N., Boyko I.V., Grebenkov S.V. Self-assessment by medical workers of the degree of influence of working conditions on the development of occupational diseases. Russian Journal of Occupational Health and Industrial Ecology. 2019;(8):463-467. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31089/1026-9428-2019-59-8-463-467
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