Evaluation of life quality connected with health in patients with occupational diseases
The article deals with methodology for integral evaluation of life quality connected with health in industrial medicine. Object of evaluation is life quality connected with health in workers exposed to occupational hazards. Empirical basis is long-standing study of life quality connected with health in patients with occupational diseases and in industrial workers. The article covers result of methologic instruments suggested by the authors for integral evaluation of life quality connected with health in workers and individuals exposed to occupational hazards, principles of group formation for such studies. The authors consider evaluation of life quality connected with health as a major goals of industrial medicine, as it completes quantitatively and qualitatively other studies of health changes in workers due to changing vital activity.