The evaluation of health surveillance of occupants working in Afşin-Elbistan High Voltage Sub-Stations

Currently, there are many studies to understand how the electromagnetic fields effect cells and tissues of biological systems. There are a lot of experimental and epidemiological studies about possible physiologic and biologic effects of 50-60 Hz power frequency fields on the human, animal and plants that are exposed to those fields, for a long time.In our study, we developed a questioner which include 30 questions, to explore the health problems of the people who are occupational exposed to electromagnetic fields for a long time. The questionnaire have been applied to 105 occupants working in Afşin-Elbistan High-Power Substations. The answers have been analyzed by using SPSS program for age, working time and occupation variables. After that, the results have been statistically evaluated about headache, articulation ache, neurological problems, hearth problems, blood pressures, sleep problems, with special attention to their occupations.The results of the analysis showed us that, some of the health problems could be occured because of the EM radiation from high power sub-stations.