The influence of professional activity on the health of stewardess

The conditions of professional environment in stewardess are characterized by the combined influence of extremal factors, impacting with stress with many reciprocal reactions, determined by the spectrum of acting conditions, their parcial intensity and resistance of organism, that leads to steady disturbances of self-regulation and adaptation and may be the cause of a pathology. It is manifested with increased somatic and gynecological morbidity of stewardess in comparison to other women of the European part of Russia.

Our data are needed to be used in the procedure of professional psychological selection of stewardess during medical examination.

The material shown verifies the necessity for medico-social investigations, directed for revealing of professional risk factors for stewardess morbidity; their prophylaxis in the system of medical control for their health status.