Open AccessFORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES IN THE NORTH-WEST PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER OF ROSPOTREBNADZOR (ON THE 95-TH ANNIVERSARY OF INSTITUTION)
Author(s) -
С. А. Горбанев
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
zdorovʹe naseleniâ i sreda obitaniâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2619-0788
pISSN - 2219-5238
DOI - 10.35627/2219-5238/2019-319-10-4-10
Subject(s) - public health , environmental health , occupational hygiene , research center , occupational safety and health , center (category theory) , human health , occupational exposure , hygiene , institution , medicine , political science , pathology , chemistry , law , crystallography
We presented results in major scientific areas being developed in the North-West Public Health Research center throughout the 95-year history of its existence. Leningrad Institute for the Study of Occupational Diseases, which was established in 1924, have developed scientific bases for diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of occupational diseases; created national school of industrial toxicology, developed procedure for hygienic regulation of harmful occupational and environmental factors in human environment. The stages of activity in the field of occupational pathology, occupational hygiene, industrial toxicology are reviewed. Currently, the research is underway to assess occupational and environmental risks to public health from exposure to harmful factors, and to improve measures to minimize them. Priorities for further development of scientific research are identified.