An epidemiological analysis of the health status of the participants in the cleanup of the aftermath of the accident at the Chernobyl Atomic Electric Power Station

: A comparative analysis has been carried out of indices for health status in 137,072 persons who took part in the elimination of the aftermath of the Chernobyl accident, using records of the National Register of Ukraine. The above-mentioned indices were for time-related general morbidity, mortality, disability during the period of 1988-1996. There has been revealed yearly increase in morbidity rates in all classes of diseases, in particular those of the circulatory system, nervous system, and sense organs, digestive, and respiratory systems. High morbidity rates are recordable with respect to that class of diseases afflicting the endocrine system, blood, and hemopoietic organs, neoplasms including malignant tumours. The disability rates tended to increase above average statistical ones for Ukraine.