Occupational diseases in the Slovak Republic from the perspective of clinical occupational medicine

Overview

There were 483 cases of occupational diseases and professional intoxications reported in the Slovak Republic in 2009. The highest proportion of occupational diseases covers the disease of bones, joints, tendons and nerves of extremities from longterm, excessive, unilateral load of upper extremities with 209 reported cases, i. e. 43.27 % of all reported professional diseases. The second was the disease of bones, joints, muscles, vessels and nerves of extremities caused by the work with vibrating instruments which represented 17.4 % of all occupational diseases in Slovakia in 2009.

The third most frequent occupational diseases are infectious and parasitic diseases including tropical infectious and parasitic diseases and diseases transmitted from animals to humans (52 cases, i.e. 10.7 % reported occupational diseases).

The occupational analysis showed the highest occurrence of occupational diseases (123 cases) in workers in mining and building industry in the Slovak Republic. The highest occurrence of occupational diseases according to the field classification of economic activities was in the industrial production – 246 reported cases.

The most occupational diseases according to the site of organization where the occupational diseases developed were reported in the region of Banska Bystrica, the most occupational diseases according to the health care organization which reported the occupational disease were in the region of Košice in 2009.

Key words:
occupational diseases, gender, age, profession, field classification of economic activities