Hygiena 2023, 68(3):87-88 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1843
Public health and its determinants in Ukraine during the war
- Státní instituce Kundievův ústav pracovního lékařství Národní akademie lékařských věd Ukrajiny
The State Institution "Kundiev Institute of Occupational Health of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine" was established in November 1928. Under the leadership of Professor Y.I. Kundiev, the Institute has gained international recognition and has been cooperating with WHO, universities in Poland, Slovakia, and the United States for many years. The Institute works in coordination with other institutions of our country. Over the years, our scientists have contributed to solving important tasks in theoretical and practical medicine. The Institute has conducted research on occupational health and occupational pathology in agriculture, electric welding, and thermal power plants. For many years, the Institute's staff took an active part in the elimination of the medical consequences of the Chernobyl accident. The hypothesis that the onset and severity of cataracts depend on the radiation dose was tested and confirmed, which allowed the development of a new methodology for epidemiological ophthalmological examination of workers exposed to ionising radiation. Priority data were obtained on the risk criteria for the development of occupational diseases in workers in the coal industry, machine building and agriculture of Ukraine. Scientific and methodological foundations for assessing working conditions as risk factors for cancer and recommendations for improving the system of detection and registration of occupational cancer in Ukraine were developed.
Published: September 30, 2023 Show citation
