Collection Occupational hygiene, Issue 30, 1999 year

Hygienic aspects of detection and prevention of professionally determined pathology in computer operators with VDT

A.A. Potapov

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Donetsk State Medical University, Donetsk

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The article is devoted to the problem of identifying and preventing occupational diseases of operators working with VDT. The data obtained allow us to speak about the unfavorable effect of working with VDT on operators, which affects the state of nonspecific resistance of the organism, and leads to the formation of pathology. Based on the comparison of the results of the analysis of morbidity, the functional state of the body, medical documentation, it was concluded that it is necessary to compare the clinical data with the working conditions in order to more accurately determine the diagnosis, etiology, pathogenesis and develop effective treatment and prophylactic measures.

Key words: video terminals, operators, morbidity, prevention

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