[Medical and social aspects of deafness at able bodied age].

Findings are that annual incidence of neurosensory deafness in Russia equals at most 0.06% of workers exposed to increased noise level at work and fails to demonstrate actual occupational risk of noise related diseases. The author proved that low level of neurosensory deafness diagnosis is caused not only by insatisfactory quality of periodic medical examinations, but also by psychosocial factors as fear of losing the job and negative attitude of social groups to people with impaired hearing. Essential arterial hypertension appeared to be highly prevelent among civil aviation crew members with neurosensory deafness.