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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.1d1" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">Problems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of Medicine</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Problems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of Medicine</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">0869-866X</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2412-2106</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Joint-Stock Company Chicot</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">2695</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.32687/0869-866X-2026-34-3-652-656</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Научная статья</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>THE ESTIMATION OF ABILITY OF WORK OF WORKERS OF METAL-WORKING INDUSTRY BASED ON QUESTIONNAIRE WORK ABILITY INDEX (WAI)</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name name-style="western"><surname>Aleshina</surname><given-names>Yu. A.</given-names></name><email></email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name name-style="western"><surname>Novikova</surname><given-names>T. A.</given-names></name><email></email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff-1">The Saratov Medical Scientific Center of Hygiene of The Federal Budgetary Institution of Science "The Federal Scientific Center of Medical Preventive Technologies of Management of Risks of Population Health", 410022, Saratov, Russia</aff><pub-date date-type="epub" iso-8601-date="2026-07-07" publication-format="electronic"><day>07</day><month>07</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>34</volume><issue>3</issue><fpage>652</fpage><lpage>656</lpage><history><pub-date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2026-07-07"><day>07</day><month>07</month><year>2026</year></pub-date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright © 2026,</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2026</copyright-year></permissions><abstract>The promotion of population health and decrease of duration of disability of citizen in able-bodied age are among the national goals of development of the Russian Federation, that determined relevance of the study. The purpose of the study is to assess the Work Ability Index (WAI) to identify individuals and forming groups of workers of metalworking industry requiring correction of risk factors of loosing working capacity.</abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>metalworking workers</kwd><kwd>work ability index</kwd><kwd>disease</kwd><kwd>musculoskeletal system</kwd><kwd>risk groups.</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>работники металлообрабатывающего производства</kwd><kwd>индекс трудоспособности</kwd><kwd>заболевания опорно-двигательного аппарата</kwd><kwd>группа риска.</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>WHO. Fact sheets Musculoskeletal health. Fact sheets. (2021). Режим доступа: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/musculoskeletal-conditions (дата обращения 27.06.2025).</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><label>2.</label><mixed-citation>GBD 2021 Low Back Pain Collaborators. 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