Classical syndromes in occupational medicine: Phosphorus necrosis—A classical occupational disease

1982 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Spencer Felton
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Disease ◽  
Occupational Medicine

Computed tomography in diagnosis of silicosis

2019 ◽  
pp. 39-41
Author(s):  
Alina S. Kovaleva ◽  
Igor V. Bukhtiyarov ◽  
Natalya S. Serova ◽  
Tatyana B. Burmistrova
Keyword(s):  
Computed Tomography ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Respiratory System ◽  
Evidence Based Medicine ◽  
Occupational Disease ◽  
Occupational Medicine ◽  
Occupational Diseases ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
High Resolution Computed Tomography ◽  
Based Medicine

Respiratory system diseases are one of the main problems in contemporary occupational medicine and exceed one fifth of all occupational diseases. Objective of the review was search and analysis of literature on diagnosis of silicosis as an important occupational disease of respiratory organs, by computed tomography and high-resolution computed tomography, from evidence-based medicine viewpoint.

scholarly journals Occupational Disease as the Bane of Workers’ Lives: A Chronological Review of the Literature and Study of Its Development in Slovakia. Part 1

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 5910
Author(s):  
Miriama Piňosová ◽  
Miriam Andrejiova ◽  
Miroslav Badida ◽  
Marek Moravec
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Statistical Methods ◽  
Occupational Disease ◽  
Occupational Medicine ◽  
Occupational Diseases ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Trend Model

This article not only offers a chronological overview of the development of occupational medicine, but also offers a summary of occupational diseases recommended by the ILO and legislative decisions that have influenced how we approach assessment today. We consider that these areas form a whole in which they cannot function without each other and they would lose their relevance if the system was collapsed. By excluding even one part of it, we would find ourselves at the beginning of the era of occupational medicine, and a large number of employees would once again be exposed to conditions that previously led to considerable illness and mortality of employees. The article also examines legislation and the development of occupational diseases in Slovakia in the period 1997–2019. Using basic statistical methods and time series, a trend model for the time series of the development of the number of occupational diseases over the last 20 years is created. The modeling also includes a forecast for the development of the number of occupational diseases for the next 5 years. The model created shows a favorable, decreasing trend in the number of occupational diseases in Slovakia.

scholarly journals The Importance of Occupational Medicine Outpatient Clinics; a Single Center Experience in Turkey

Acta Medica ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Mehmet Erdem Alagüney
Keyword(s):  
Outpatient Clinic ◽  
Occupational Disease ◽  
Occupational Medicine ◽  
Occupational Diseases ◽  
Care Center ◽  
Outpatient Clinics ◽  
Single Center ◽  
Health Care Center ◽  
Single Center Experience ◽  
Secondary Health Care

Objective: The specialty of occupational medicine is newly developing in Turkey and the number of specialists and the specialty clinics are very few. The aim of this study is to present the first two-year data of an occupational medicine outpatient clinic. This clinic is unique as it is the first outpatient clinic in a secondary health care center in Turkey (except dedicated occupational disease hospitals), and the first residency-trained occupational medicine specialist in Turkey was running this clinic. The data will be compared with national numbers in order to show if these clinics make a difference in diagnosis and notification of occupational diseases. Materials and Methods: The data is collected from the hospital database between 2017 August to 2019 August who applied to Occupational Diseases Clinic in the hospital. Only the patients who were referred by a physician or applied themselves with suspicion of an occupational disease are included to the study. The patients who applied for periodic examinations, fitness for work evaluations are not included. Results: A total of 491 patients were included to the study. 444 of them did not have a prior diagnosis of occupational disease. Of these patients, 162 (36.4%) were diagnosed with an occupational disease. 42.6 % of these diagnoses were pneumoconiosis. Conclusion: Occupational diseases are underdiagnosed and/or underreported in Turkey. A single center dedicated to occupational diseases made a substantial increase in the number of occupational diseases in two years. In conclusion, these clinics would help improving recognition of occupational diseases.

scholarly journals PROBLEMS OF WORKING CAPACITY EXPERTISE IN PATIENTS WITH HEARING LOSS

2019 ◽  
Vol 96 (7) ◽  
pp. 641-646 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan V. Boiko ◽  
T. G. Shimanskaya ◽  
O. N. Andreenko ◽  
N. N. Loginova ◽  
E. Yu. Okuneva
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Occupational Disease ◽  
Occupational Medicine ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Labor Protection ◽  
Working Capacity ◽  
Occupational Factors ◽  
Analytical Research

Results of the analytical research are given to justify methods of working capacity expertise in patients with hearing loss. The goal is to provide the successful professional rehabilitation of these workers and minimize the risk of occupational trauma or occupational disease because of harmful occupational factors. Since 2014 hearing loss patients have been allowed to work with many harmful and dangerous factors. Up-to-date laws and regulations have some logical contradictions with controversial interpretation. Some criteria for determination of working capacity in these workers have not been justified from the point of view of the professional risk yet. The paper discusses the need for the optimization of normative acts by the way of exclusion of logical contradictions and incorrect formulations. Today the determination of professional risk for the workers with hearing loss who work in noise and under the action of other harmful occupational factors is topical. According to results of this research the criteria of working capacity expertise for these cases should be revised to prevent health risk and disaster situations. Working capacity expertise in hearing loss patients should be provided by specialists in occupational medicine and labor protection. Individual peculiarities of the disease and prospective work place should be also taken into account.

scholarly journals Covid-19 as occupational disease in healthcare workers: a brief review of cases in the Clinical Hospital Centre Rijeka, Croatia

2021 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 240-243
Author(s):  
Hrvoje Lalić
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Disease ◽  
Occupational Medicine ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Work Organisation ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Clinical Hospital ◽  
Long Acting ◽  
Prospective Monitoring

Abstract The coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a tremendous impact on every facet of private life and work organisation in virtually all social and economic sectors worldwide. People who stand on the first line of defence are healthcare workers (HCWs) risking exposure to infected patients. However, even though they are often affected by COVID-19 and associated somatic and mental health problems, COVID-19 as a new illness was not immediately acknowledged as occupational disease. This is why several groups of HCWs contacted their occupational medicine physicians in 2020 with a request to register the infection with SARS-CoV-2 as occupational disease. In an attempt to support their appeals and show that hospital workers have a high occupational risk of COVID-19, this study presents COVID-19 incidence and symptoms in 100 employees working at 11 clinics of the Clinical Hospital Centre (CHC) Rijeka, Croatia from 1 June to end December 2020. All of them were infected with SARS-CoV-2 and took sick leave, which lasted 13.6±2.6 days in average. This study also looks into the role of occupational medicine physicians in prospective monitoring of acute and long-acting consequences of COVID-19 that might occur in HCWs.

scholarly journals Occupational diseases and general practitioners

Sigurnost ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 343-356
Author(s):  
Renata Ecimović Nemarnik ◽  
Marija Bubaš ◽  
Denis Lisica Mandek ◽  
Zoran Šimurina ◽  
Hrvoje Radić ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
General Practitioners ◽  
Occupational Disease ◽  
Occupational Medicine ◽  
Occupational Diseases ◽  
Community Health Centers ◽  
Skin Diseases ◽  
Family Physicians ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Education Courses

SUMMARY: The aim of this study is to investigate the views of general practitioners regarding the reporting of occupational diseases and the possible link between work status, sickness and assessment of work ability with occupational diseases. The study also places focus on the need to improve collaboration with occupational medicine specialists, on general practitioners' need for education in certain areas of occupational health and occupational diseases, and on topics and ways of implementing education. The subjects were family physicians and general practitioners (50) employed in community health centers in Zagreb. The reported occupational diseases in family physician's surgeries were analyzed. It was found that 26% respondents reported occupational disease, 70% did not report it, and 4% did not know whether or not they had reported occupational disease in the last five years. The most commonly reported occupational diseases were diseases of the musculoskeletal system (38%) and skin diseases (38%). The reasons given for not reporting occupational diseases were that doctors were not aware that those were occupational diseases (91%), and because they feared that the patient may get fired (9%). The vast majority of respondents (94%) agreed that it is necessary to improve cooperation between family physicians and occupational medicine specialists. Seventy eight percent of family physicians were interested in education on how to recognize occupational diseases. Preventive team work on the part of occupational medicine specialists and family physicians using the 'check lists' in family physician's surgeries, and education courses on occupational health would improve primary prevention of occupational diseases, while early detection would halt the progress of occupational diseases and thus reduce ensuing disability caused by occupational disease.

The prevalence of diseases of non-occupational genesis in persons with diagnosis of occupational disease

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Guryev A. V. ◽  
◽  
Tukov A. R. ◽  
Kalinina M. Iu. ◽  
Zubov A. V. ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Disease

205. Intervention Effectiveness in Clinical Occupational Medicine

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Bracker ◽  
J. Blumberg ◽  
M. Hodgson ◽  
E. Storey
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Medicine ◽  
Intervention Effectiveness

On the issue of criteria for recognition of occupational disease as an insured event in health care workers

2020 ◽  
pp. 618-619
Author(s):  
L. V. Dovgusha ◽  
N. N. Petruhin
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Occupational Disease ◽  
Occupational Diseases ◽  
Medical Rehabilitation ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Rehabilitation Measures ◽  
Professional Capacity ◽  
Insured Event

The publication deals with cases of occupational diseases in medical workers, in which the degree of loss of professional capacity is not determined, but patients need medical rehabilitation measures.

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