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Based on workers' biologic age, the authors created a systemic model of general and occupational ablebodiedness and tested the model on selective determination of biologic age among workers of various Ukrainian regions. The results proved increase in occupational aging of the population. General and occupational ablebodiedness in males of the select was lower than that in the females. Occupational ablebodiedness of population, especially of males, is considerably decreased. The latter evidence is a function of economic circumstances: heavy, hazardous and dangerous work conditions hardly compensated by payments.

Automated system ASKORS for medical risk assessment is non-laborious and highly informative method of preclinical diagnosis, that enables to determine medical risk groups in accordance with specific features of medical examination. Data obtained by ASKORS in examination of the staffers in Donbass mines provides important hygienic information on association of health state and performance of the workers with their work conditions. Application of ASKORS as first preclinical diagnostic tool enables to avoid meticulous medical screening of the working populations subjected to-mandatory medical examinations. With that, the efficacy and quality of medical examinations are believed to increase. ASKORS (or its competitive analog) can become an important means monitoring health state and performance among workers engaged into Ukrainian industry, especially for assessment of medical risk.

The paper provides the results of the examination of 112 convalescents of different age using the method of determining the class of ability to work according to the response to the active orthostatic test. A comparative analysis was conducted of different methods of occupational rehabilitation under conditions of workshop medical unit of a large industrial enterprise. It was found that the most effective method is the transfer of convalescents to a more easy work for physiologically substantiated periods of time. Validated criteria of assessing the efficacy of rehabilitation measures are proposed.

The course of responses to the orthostatic test is analyzed in convalescents with a history of different diseases. Diagnostic factors were singled out characteristic of different groups of diseases including values of the cardiovascular, neuromuscular systems of the body. On the basis of obtained data a decimal classification of the working capacity of convalescents was worked out by their reaction to orthostatic effects.

In the conditions of the demographic aging of the population in the USSR, both medical and social inadequacy of the existing system of technocratic management in industries is becoming still more apparent. What is needed now is humanization of industry by adjusting it to the actual functional abilities of the aging workers on an individually typical basis.