I Khadzhiolova, L Mincheva, M Topalova, Kh Deianov
{"title":"[An evaluation of the strain in the work of teachers].","authors":"I Khadzhiolova, L Mincheva, M Topalova, Kh Deianov","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Psychophysiological studies on teachers' work include generally the evaluation of occupational stressors influencing the work load and strain and the assessment of transient and long-term changes in teachers' functional state and health due to these stressors. Results from investigations of some changes in the functional state of the organism of female teachers working in secondary and technical schools of different profiles were presented in this study. The following parameters were applied: subjective feeling of fatigue, heart rate [HR], excretion rates of 11-oxycorticosteroids (11-OCS), adrenaline (A) and noradrenaline (NA) during work. According to the mean HR values during work a moderate cardio-vascular strain was obtained (HR between 80-90 beats) min. Transient HR values over 100 beats/min were registered during periods connected with specific stressful working conditions. The levels of 11-OCS and the catecholamines excretion rates also indicated a moderate job strain. More pronounced changes in 11-OCS, NA and A were found when teaching in the upper classes of the secondary and technical schools. Significant correlations were established between the changes of HR, 11-OCS, NA and A and some individual characteristics of the examined persons, such as: age, length of service, HR at rest and level of neuroticism. Our data reveal the usefulness of the indices and procedures applied for the evaluation of teachers' strain at work.</p>","PeriodicalId":20520,"journal":{"name":"Problemi na khigienata","volume":"19 ","pages":"50-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18845561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[An experimental evaluation of the cutaneous action of the preparation Bulmektin].","authors":"Zh Khalkova","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The acute and subacute dermal toxicity, skin irritating and sensitizing effect of the preparation \"Bulmektin\" was examined for a period of 21 days. It contains 0.5% active substance Ivermectin. The experiments were carried out in conformity with the Bulgarian State Standards and the OECD methodical recommendations. The unrepeated dermal application of the preparation in dose 6000 mg/kg-1 for white rats provoked no lethality and signs of intoxication. No cumulative effect was established at the 21-day dermal toxicity. The threshold dose is 2000 mg/kg-1. On the basis of the investigations could be accepted, that the preparation carries no danger for acute and chronic dermal intoxications at observing the regulations for its production and use. No local irritation of the skin is established in rats and guinea pigs from the preparation. There is no development of contact allergy at the application of induced and allowed dose of 25% aqua suspension of the preparation on white guinea pigs.</p>","PeriodicalId":20520,"journal":{"name":"Problemi na khigienata","volume":"19 ","pages":"111-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18847105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[The Healthy Cities Project of the World Health Organization and the approach to its realization].","authors":"M Chuchkova","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Our health prophylactic badly needs approaches and means for the realization of healthy policy, responding to the changing situations of health risk and shared responsibilities concerning the environment and man's health. The project \"Healthy Cities\" is a means of applying the already accepted in this country principles of the program \"Health for all by the year 2000\" on local standard. The city is accepted as a complex organism, which lives, develops and constantly changes. Healthy is this city which improves its environment and manages its resources in such a way as to ensure: high level of the health status; efficient health services; physical environment of high quality, including the living environment; steady ecosystems; society, supporting the health policy; offering good living conditions to every inhabitant; intensive social co-operation; steadfast economics; intensive cultural life and maintaining the connections with the cultural-historic and natural heritage; model and approach to the town planning, corresponding to the above mentioned nine parameters. The requirements of the project, related to the WHO priority strategies are given. A key mechanism in the realization of the health policy has to be the evaluation of the health and demographic state and its periodic reporting to the town authorities by means of suitable health criteria and indicators for the qualities of the environment. The analyses of the health state and the situation of the rural environment have to serve the Governmental decisions for the towns development. Conditions for participating in the project, the international initiatives and national priorities are presented.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)</p>","PeriodicalId":20520,"journal":{"name":"Problemi na khigienata","volume":"19 ","pages":"3-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18845558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Harmful substances released during the thermal oxidative destruction of coolant lubricants].","authors":"M Mukhtarova, B Balabanova","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The use of lubricated oils in industry is related to processes of dispersing, evaporation and thermo-oxidizing destruction. As a result, in the air is eliminated a complex vaporous-gas aerosol mixture, consisting of lubricated aerosols, vapours and volatile products of evaporation and products of thermo-oxidizing destruction. In the vapour-gas phase are identified hydrocarbons [saturated, unsaturated, aromatic and cyclic] oxygen- containing hydrocarbon derivatives-aldehydes, ketones, esters, alcohols] in some cases CO. HCL. The composition of the mixture depends on the type of the lubricated oils and on the specific technological operation. The detailed study of the components of the mixture is a prerequisite for determining the leading toxic substances and for correct evaluation of the exposure and professional risk in industries, allowing a course of destructive processes with the lubricated oils.</p>","PeriodicalId":20520,"journal":{"name":"Problemi na khigienata","volume":"19 ","pages":"124-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18847107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[An experimental study of the atherogenic effect of the vanadium and nickel contained in drinking water when combined].","authors":"Ts Vodichenska, B Bŭdeva","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>During an annual toxicological experiment on white male rats, receiving orally vanadium (V) and nickel (Ni) in doses, equivalent to the accepted in Bulgaria, maximum allowable norms for ist category surface waters (respectively 0.005 mg/kg and 0.0025 mg/kg), 2 and 6 times and 20 and 60 times higher, is studied the atherogenic effect of the latter after the indices: total cholesterol, beta-lipoproteins, phospholipids, lecithin, total lipids, total protein and hexoses of glycoproteins in the serum; oxyproline, hexauranium acids and hexoses, hexosamines, connected with the proteins in the aorta. It is established that V and Ni in chronic combined effect in doses, equivalent to those accepted in Bulgaria, in maximum allowable concentrations for Ist category waters and surpassing them 2 and 6 time respectively, lead to no changes in the biochemical composition of the connective tissue of the aorta and to disorders in the lipidic and protein metabolism, while in higher doses is registered an increase of the glucoproteins and decrease in the glucosaminglycans in the aorta and decrease of the total lipids in the serum. The results point out, that V and Ni in the conditions of the experiment don't accelerate the processes of the natural ageing of the vessels and have no atherogenic effect. Juxtaposing the data for V and Ni concentrations in drinking waters in Bulgaria with our results give grounds to reckon, that their raised content in drinking waters in some regions do not represent a risk factor for the development of atherosclerosis.</p>","PeriodicalId":20520,"journal":{"name":"Problemi na khigienata","volume":"18 ","pages":"50-62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18843799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[The discomfort threshold studied in operators at the control consoles in automated production with a view to its use in job selection].","authors":"L Tsaneva","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The results from the investigation of the threshold of discomfort in 385 operators from firm \"Kremikovtsi\" are discussed. The most expressed changes are found in operators with increased tonal auditory threshold up to 45 and above 50 dB, in high confidential probability. The observed changes in the threshold of discomfort are classified into 3 groups: 1). Raised tonal auditory threshold (up to 30 dB) without decrease in the threshold of discomfort; 2). Decreased threshold of discomfort (with about 15-20 dB) in raised tonal auditory threshold (up to 45 dB); 3). Decreased threshold of discomfort on the background of raised (above 50 dB) tonal auditory threshold. On 4 figures are represented audiograms, illustrating the state of tonal auditory threshold, the field of hearing and the threshold of discomfort. The field of hearing of the operators from the III and IV groups is narrowed, and in the latter also deformed. The explanation of this pathophysiological phenomenon is related to the increased effect of the sound irritation and the presence of recruitment phenomenon with possible engagement of the central end of the auditory analyser. It is underlined, that the threshold of discomfort is sensitive index for the state of the individual norms of each operator for the speech-sound-noise discomfort.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)</p>","PeriodicalId":20520,"journal":{"name":"Problemi na khigienata","volume":"18 ","pages":"72-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18843801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Oscillographic studies of the temporal arteries in certain jobs in Bulgarian television].","authors":"I Dobrovolski","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Oscillographic examinations on the temporal arteries of creative and technical specialists from the Bulgarian television are performed, who ensure direct transmission of the TV programs. The results point out to considerable increase in the level of the maximal temporal blood pressure and spastic oscillatory indices more strongly expressed in the creative specialists, which could be related to the nervous and psychic as well as emotional strain and high professional responsibility during the direct transmission of the TV programs. The data of the examinations confirm the significance of the functional oscillographic studies of the temporal arteries for revealing the early unfavourable changes in the cardiovascular system, in view of timely prevention of hypertension diseases.</p>","PeriodicalId":20520,"journal":{"name":"Problemi na khigienata","volume":"18 ","pages":"88-96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18843803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Population morbidity in Sofia as a reflection of the territorial characteristics of air pollution in the city].","authors":"B Nikiforov, N Boiadzhieva","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A study of ambient air pollution differences over the residential areas in Sofia and the effect of the morbidity of the population has been carried out. Correlation analysis between the average concentrations of particulates, SO2, NO2, H2S, phenol and lead, and the incidence of several groups of diseases among adults and children has been performed. It has been found out that air pollution is more intensive in the centre of the city as a consequence of the heavy motor vehicle traffic and the old way of town planning. The results point out also that diseases of the lung, eye and skin are more frequent among the residents of city areas situated next to industrial zones, while diseases of the cardiovascular, hemopoietic and endocrine systems are more typical in the city centre as compared to a control residential areas. Although ambient air pollution has been found to the moderate, the correlation analysis suggests an influence of air pollution on the incidence of chronic diseases and immune imbalance. It is supposed that each pollutant possesses an individual risk potential.</p>","PeriodicalId":20520,"journal":{"name":"Problemi na khigienata","volume":"18 ","pages":"10-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18843936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[An infrared spectrophotometric method for determining nitrous oxide and halothane in the air of operating rooms].","authors":"T Panev","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nitrous oxide and halothane are one of the most widely used anesthetics in the surgical practice. A spectrophotometric method in the infrared area is worked out for direct determination in gas phase simultaneously on nitrous oxide at 2236 cm-1 and on halothane at 813 cm-1 by means of 20 m gas cuvette. The sensitivity of the method for nitrous oxide is 20 mg/m3 and for halothane 5 mg/m3. The reproducibility of the method expressed as coefficient of variation is +/- 1-6%. The method is specific in the presence of other anesthesiological means. The air samples are taken in bags of Tedlar and depending on the sampling velocity the method can be used for recording the moment and average shift concentrations of nitrous oxide and halothane.</p>","PeriodicalId":20520,"journal":{"name":"Problemi na khigienata","volume":"18 ","pages":"139-43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18844428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[The hygienic characteristics of the hospital environment in a cardiovascular pathology ward during the heating season].","authors":"S Toshkov, M Chuchkova, L Chipilska, I Popivanova","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A study is carried out on the microclimate, physiological reaction of patients, chemical and bacteriological composition of the air in rooms of different location in the ward for cardiovascular pathology during the heating period of the year, according to some basic and integral indices. The characteristics of the interhospital environment in the rooms of the investigated ward is determined mainly by the irrational regime of heating, location, size of the glazed transparent area. In the hospital rooms are formed unsatisfactory hygienic norm parameters of the microclimate and the chemical composition of the air. The specific thermal environment affects the physiological reactions of the patients and leads to creation of conditions of discomfort and loading of the thermoregulation in direction of overheating.</p>","PeriodicalId":20520,"journal":{"name":"Problemi na khigienata","volume":"18 ","pages":"44-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18843798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}