[Methodological approaches in developing disease prevention in mine workers in northeast Russia]

For many years the Magadan region occupies the leading position as regards the incidence of occupational and some general somatic diseases. Recent social and economic reforms in mining industry led to a decrease in the level of life of workers and their family members and an increase in the incidence of professional and general somatic diseases and mortality of capable people. Improvement of socio-hygienic conditions of miners' life at the expense of enterprises of new forms of property can be hardly expected in the nearest future, which necessitates realization of a complex regional program taking account of economic specificities of the region, aimed at improvement of total resistance to unfavorable climatic conditions of the North.