[Health status of postal service workers]

The improvement of health status of post-office workers along with identifying the leading causes of morbidity is an urgent task. The analysis of morbidity according to medical examination data and temporary disability showed the prevalence of nervous diseases among sorters of postal wrappers and letters, circulatory diseases among sorters of printed matter and operators of communication service, musculoskeletal diseases among sorters of postal parcels and wrappers. The deducted equations of multiple regression permitted to establish the impact of medico-social and industrial factors on the development of certain groups of diseases. The greatest impact of industrial factors on the development of morbidity (61-66 percent) was found among sorters of postal wrappers and operators of communication service, whose labour was regarded as hard and strenuous work. High prevalence of neurotic reactions, hypertensive disease, occupational diseases of the bones and organs of movement was found among workers of this branch. The cause-and-effect association between morbidity and industrial factors permitted to substantiate the system of health promoting activities.