HYGIENE, PHYSIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY IN RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION

GIGIENA, FIZIOLOGIIA I EPIDEMIOLOGIIA NA ZHELEZNODOROZHNOM TRANSPORTE

The summary contains the following reports: (1) Results and basic directions in the development of occupational pathology in railroad transport; (2) Comparative evaluation of the state of health of locomotive crew members; (3) Clinical symptomatology of locomotive crew workers with increasing arterial pressure; (4) Arterial blood pressure in locomotive engineers; (5) Condition of hearing in electric and diesel locomotive crew members according to tonal audiometrical data; (6) The question of vibrational illness in railroad transport; (7) The problem of the effect of production factors on the health condition of track machine mechanics; (8) Some data from gynecological examinations of female guards on passenger cars; (9) The state of health of ticket cashiers; (10) Some clinical changes in workers who work with crosstie-impregnating oils; (11) Occupational sick rate and measures for lowering it on the West Siberian railroad; (12) Occupational skeletal pathology in female insulators and electrical winders of electrotechnical enterprises of the Ministry of Railroads; (13) Methodological problems in radio isotope cardiography. Normal indices of central hemodynamics in reproductive and growth aspects.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract only is available in English, original untranslated as of November 1976. This is from the collection of scientific works "Sbornik nauchnykh trudov."
• Corporate Authors:

  USSR Ministry of Railways

  Novo-Basmannaya, Ulitsa 2
  Moscow,   USSR 

  All-Union Scientific Res Inst of Railroad Hygiene

  Moscow,   USSR 
• Publication Date: 1972

Language

• Russian

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 47 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Human factors; Hypertension; Locomotive engineers; Occupational safety; Physiological aspects
• Uncontrolled Terms: Occupational health
• Old TRIS Terms: Physiological factors
• Subject Areas: Railroads; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00130307
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Federal Railroad Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: No. 39
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Dec 1 1977 12:00AM