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Occupational disease or occupational disease risk is not only matter of health, but also a social-economic problem with a serious impact on the life of the employee, production technology, or production process itself. In order to recognize an occupational disease or threat of occupational disease, the conditions laid down by law, in particular the Government Decree establishing the list of occupational diseases, must be met. Clinical - diagnostic criteria including disease severity must be met and it must be verified that the worker has been exposed to working conditions where the occupational disease might have arisen. This work summarizes the principles of the process of assessing and recognizing the professionalism of the disease, and the duties of the attending physicians and employers in the process.

Klíčová slova
occupational diseases, occupational health/ industrial hygiene, occupational medicine, public health,
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lidé MeSH
nemoci z povolání * diagnóza MeSH
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časopisecké články MeSH
Geografické názvy
Česká republika MeSH

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Occupational diseases reported during 1958

Pracovni lekarstvi. 1959 Oct ; 11 () : 423-9.

Prac Lek
ISSN 0032-6291
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OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES/statistics *,
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lidé MeSH
nemoci z povolání statistika a číselné údaje MeSH
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časopisecké články MeSH

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Occupational diseases in the Czech Republic in the year 1998. The need for unifying European standards/criteria for all occupational diseases

have the right to recognise occupational diseases. ...

Central European journal of public health. 2000 Feb ; 8 (1) : 49-52.

Cent Eur J Public Health
ISSN 1210-7778
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In the Czech Republic, the Clinics and Departments for Occupational Medicine according to the legislation have the right to recognise occupational diseases. The diagnosis must correspond to the Czech list of occupational diseases, which is similar to the European list of occupational diseases. The exposure, sufficient enough to cause certain occupational disease, must be confirmed by regional industrial hygienists, responsible for hygienic control of the workplace. It is evident that the number of diseases is very much dependent upon the standards/criteria used to recognise occupational diseases. In the Czech Republic, the patients suffering from occupational diseases are given considerable financial compensations, which creates a great motivation for them to apply for occupational diseases. The article presents the overview of occupational diseases in the Czech Republic in the year 1998. The total number of diseases was 2111, the incidence per 100,000 employees was 45.8. It is necessary to present and discuss unifying criteria for occupational diseases in European countries, as well as the minimum level of the damage, that could be called an occupational disease. The criteria should be co-ordinated, because in a unified Europe, there will be many more possibilities for change in the workplace.

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incidence MeSH
lidé MeSH
nemoci z povolání klasifikace epidemiologie MeSH
pracovní expozice klasifikace normy MeSH
pracovní lékařství klasifikace normy MeSH
služby zdravotní péče o pracující klasifikace normy MeSH
zaměstnání klasifikace normy MeSH
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časopisecké články MeSH
Geografické názvy
Česká republika epidemiologie MeSH
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Occupational diseases in the automotive industry in Czechia - Geographic and medical context

The objective of this study has been to analyze the occurrence of occupational diseases (OD) in the automotive ...

International journal of occupational medicine and environmental health. 2017 May 08 ; 30 (3) : 455-468. [epub] 20170420

Int J Occup Med Environ Health
ISSN 1896-494X | 1232-1087
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OBJECTIVES: The automotive industry represents the most important industrial sector in Czechia. The objective of this study has been to analyze the occurrence of occupational diseases (OD) in the automotive industry during the period from 2001 till 2014. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Data on OD cases was retrieved from the National Registry of OD. Further, we conducted a survey in automotive companies with focus on occupational health services and positions of the companies in global production networks (GPNs). An analysis of OD distribution in the automotive industry was performed (age, gender, company size and its role in GPNs, regional distribution of studied companies, and regional unemployment rate), and was accompanied by assessment of the quality and range of occupational health services. RESULTS: Employees older than 40 years old have nearly 2.5 times higher probability of OD occurrence as compared with employees younger than 40 years old (odds ratio (OR) = 2.41, 95% confidence interval (CI): 2.05-2.85). Occupational diseases occurrence probability was 3 times higher for women than for men (OR = 3.01, 95% CI: 2.55-3.55). Occupational diseases incidence rates increased with the size of the company (0 OD/10 000 employees in micro enterprises to 57 OD/10 000 employees in large enterprises). A particularly steep rise in OD incidents in the automotive industry was observed in the Plzeň Region between 2001 and 2011. An association between OD incidents and the unemployment rate was not statistically confirmed. CONCLUSIONS: A statistically significant increase in OD incidents dependent on company size may be arguably attributed to a higher quality of occupational medical services in bigger companies, which ensures better detection and diagnosis of OD. In the Plzeň Region, the rapid increase in OD incidents was mainly caused by a change in the production process of automobile textiles in one factory due to the introduction of a glue containing isocyanates, which are potent allergising agents. This led to an increase in occupational allergic diseases - bronchial asthma in particular. Int J Occup Med Environ Health 2017;30(3):455-468.