Servicewomen’s social protection as an object of health management process

• Sergej A. Tsutsiev

Abstract

The servicewomen’s number in the modern armies of most of world increases year on year. However, combat hardships can be successfully combined with anatomico-physiological characteristics of a female body under the stipulation that women are provided with appropriate social protection. Otherwise, there occurs an overfatigue in the female body, which is manifested by the development of various diseases. Therefore, the issue of organizing the fringe benefits’ implementation completeness monitoring for servicewomen is a crucial hygienic task.

Aim – collection of evidence of the military authorities’ ability to conduct the health management process for the timely and full implementation of servicewomen’s social protection.

Material and methods. Methods of scientific analysis and comparison of legislative and other statutory acts that impose requirements for troop service, military service security, and hygienic rating, were applied.

Results. The resources presently available in the Russian Armed Forces’ medical service preclude from organizing an objective and reliable monitoring of compensations and benefits’ implementation completeness for servicewomen.

Discussion. The military medical service mainly has documentary and visual control methods, and test laboratories located in formations, associations, military districts (fleets), are inappropriate for hazard identification, instrumental measurement of the military labor’s health and safety hazards, or final sanitary audit of the military service conditions at all working places of military personnel, including women, in a military unit.

Conclusion. To obtain objective, accurate and reliable results of the health management process in general, and of the servicewomen’s social protection implementation completeness in particular, it is necessary to approve the “special assessment of servicemembers’ working environment” model for implementation as a mandatory procedure in test laboratories of the Russian Armed Forces’ medical service.

Keywords:hygiene; control; servicemember-woman; benefit; compensation

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