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The article presents the results of the evaluation of the most significant risk factors related to lifestyle and health of medical students of different courses andfaculties. The obtained data testify that out of the total number of factors that have a significant influence on the formation of bases of student's healthy lifestyle and health, the most typical are the mode of employment, the total workload, material well-being, living conditions of the majority of today's students, as well as the conditions of nutrition, physical activity, the presence or absence of such factors as smoking, frequency of consumption of alcoholic beverages.

In the article the psycho-pedagogical and physiological-hygienic aspects of improvement of student's learning in radiation hygiene at the Health-prophylactic Faculty of the medical institution within a framework of the requirements of the new Federal State Educational Standard -3 are considered.

The paper considers the topical hygienic aspects of education and adaptation improvement in senior (fourth-year) medical students from the Faculty of Medical Prevention.

Demographic analysis indicated the preponderance of adolescents and young men from workers' families. Analyzing the distribution of young men by follow-up groups showed that the largest number of young men in the workers' families belong to Group 2 (61.3%), those in the employees' families to Group 3 (46.7%). Analyzing the follow-up groups by the level of education revealed as follows: the higher level of education is, the more attention the young men pay to their health. The lowest medical education was noted in follow-up Group 3. Most adolescents belong to the basic group of physical fitness (88.3%), 6.7% in the preparatory group; 3.7%; in the special one. 1.3% need therapeutic exercises. At the same time, assessing exercise tolerance (88.3%) indicated an excellent physical development only in 9%, good, satisfactory, and bad physical development in 53.6, 32.4, and 5.1%, respectively.

The "Dmitrovsky" solid garbage (SG) ground is one of the largest enterprises of this kind in the Moscow Region. A total of 200,000-750,000 tons of solid garbage (91%) and industrial waste products (9%) annually come to the ground. A total of 5,500,000 tons of garbage and waste products have been accumulated since it was put into operation. From the accumulated SG deposits, iron, manganese, beryllium, titanium, barium, boron, petroleum products enter the surface and underground waters, methane, carbon oxide, ammonia, toluene, xylene, hydrogen sulfide, cresol, phenol come into the atmospheric air; the compounds of zinc, lead, cadmium, copper, nickel, magnesium, and cobalt do into the soil. The studies conducted in 1997-2002 make it possible to establish that the ground has a negative impact on the environment and to evaluate the efficiency of nature-conservation and hygienic measures, and to improve the technological process of SG utilization.

The developed and promoted package of ecological and hygienic measures and the specific programme introduced by the State Sanitary-and-Epidemiological Surveillance Committee have yielded positive results in sanitizing the Yakhroma flood land, approaches to rationally managing the medical and sanitary situation. The implemented measures are a preparatory stage of introduction of the assessment of a health risk in hygienic monitoring.

People working in modern carpet industry are exposed to a complex of factors of different origin, the most important among which are general vibration and styrene vapors. It has been found out in animal experiments simulating working conditions, that the central nervous system is the most sensitive both under an isolated and joint exposure to the factors. The joint exposure of animals to styrene and vibration may be evaluated as having different targets depending on the parameters under study.