Concepts of occupational morbidity formation in miners of Rostov coal basin
The authors analyzed informational statistic materials of Occupational pathology center in Rostov region over 1960-2016 and information on retrospectively formed cohort of coal miners (1990-2015). Medical and demographic characteristics of the cohort covered work conditions, age at occupational disease diagnosis in the miners, structure and dynamics of occupational morbidity in various occupational groups. Over the stated time interval, unfavorable work conditions of the coal miners were associated with high risk of occupational disease development. The miners of the studied cohort appeared to have respiratory diseases and vibration disease at able-bodied age (70.4%) prevalent in occupational diseases structure.