[Health status of the Russian population and current problems in occupational medicine and industrial ecology].

Major goal of occupational medicine--better health of employees--could be reached through integrated theoretical and practical approaches to the issues assigned to different scientific spheres. The article suggests some principles of new direction in prophylactic medicine. Those principles form a theoretical basis for occupational medicine and industrial ecology: being also a powerful instrument for evaluation and management of occupational and ecologic risk. The authors define group and individual risk, base a concept of residual risk and necessitate further improvement of protecting measures to restrict individual risk for every employee.