Tsimakuridze M P, Saakadze V P, Tsereteli M N
Georgian Med News. 2008 Jun(159):62-8.
The radical reform of health care system in Georgia after the collapse of the Soviet Union negatively affected the occupational medicine, environmental medicine, occupational health services, and preventive measures. The level of medical assistance to people suffering from harmful industrial factors decreased, which is a serious danger for the health of the workers and for the next generations. The aim of the article is to protect the right to means for adequate health and suggest effective ways for health care improvement. In order to reconstruct the system of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, it is necessary to create a network of occupational healthcare. We strongly believe investment in preventive health is vital to safeguard and improve the health of the community. The Center of Occupational Medicine and the Institute of Labor Medicine and Ecology with corresponding financing, educational programs for medical students and continuous practice of physicians in occupational medicine, enhancing the number of the scientific research designed to discover the early forms of occupational pathologies and timely prevention of the disease is vital to protect the right to means for adequate health, to advance the professional development of physicians, nurses, research scientists, and allied health professionals in order to diminish general and occupational diseases in Georgia.
苏联解体后，格鲁吉亚医疗体系的彻底改革对职业医学、环境医学、职业健康服务及预防措施产生了负面影响。对遭受有害工业因素影响的人群的医疗救助水平下降，这对工人健康及下一代构成严重威胁。本文旨在保障获得充足健康手段的权利，并提出改善医疗保健的有效途径。为重建职业与环境医学体系，有必要创建职业医疗保健网络。我们坚信，对预防性健康的投资对于保障和改善社区健康至关重要。职业医学中心以及劳动医学与生态研究所，配以相应的资金、针对医学生的教育项目以及医生在职业医学方面的持续实践，加强旨在发现职业病理早期形式并及时预防疾病的科研数量，对于保障获得充足健康手段的权利、推动医生、护士、科研人员及相关健康专业人员的职业发展，从而减少格鲁吉亚的普通疾病和职业病至关重要。
