PROFESSIONAL PATHOLOGY OF MILITARY SERVICE DUE TO NOISE EXPOSURE

Noise, being a general biological stimulus, affects all organs and systems of the body. When exposed to noise, certain physiological changes and pathological conditions develop, which depend on specific conditions: the level and nature of the noise, the duration of its exposure. Noise occupies one of the leading places among the adverse factors in the Armed Forces (AF), its impact leads to a decrease in military professional capacity and an increase in the incidence of military personnel. This is facilitated by the high mechanization and power supply of weapons and military equipment, the absence and insufficient number of personnel protection from noise (collective and individual), which in most cases have low acoustic efficiency. In the Sun, noise was not identified as a harmful factor leading to the development of occupational pathology; the issues of professional selection and examination of noise pathology were not fully developed. Military personnel who have been exposed to intense noise for a long period of time have diseases of noise genesis, which, however, in accordance with the regulatory legal documents in force in the Armed Forces, are not considered occupational diseases. After dismissal from the Armed Forces, such persons are not adequately protected socially, since the causal relationship of the pathology revealed in them has the phrase “the disease was received during the military service” instead of the necessary disease was received while performing military service duties (“military trauma”).

noise, infrasound, noise pathology, military personnel, sensorineural hearing loss