Collection Occupational hygiene, Issue 21, 1985 year

On the criteria for assessing risk in the analysis of occupational morbidity

M. A. Ershova

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Kiev Research Institute of Occupational Hygiene and Occupational Diseases

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In the last decade, in connection with the comprehensive development of social and hygienic research, the issues of methods of studying and evaluating various indicators that determine the degree of risk of the formation of occupational pathology have become especially important [2-4, 6].

The study of SES reports, scientific and practical work and other materials showed that quite often methodological errors are allowed in them, distorting the true state of occupational morbidity, as a result of which the obtained statistical data are incorrectly explained. This affects the completeness and objectivity of the assessment of the conjuncture, the degree of use of data for the development of health-improving measures.

Due to the lack of official reporting and a very small number of studies related to the long-term outcomes of occupational pathology, practical health authorities for the development of issues of prevention, clinical examination and medical and social rehabilitation of this contingent of patients must also use the data of investigative acts in terms of the immediate consequences of occupational pathology, followed by by calculating their frequency per 100 cases (similar to the reasons).

It is important to take into account all the consequences of a purely medical and social nature in their combination: for example, temporary disability and transfer to other jobs, inpatient treatment and disability, etc. Analysis of such data, especially for individual enterprises and homogeneous groups of patients (persons of the same profession , of the same sex, age), allows not only to assess the degree of danger of certain forms of pathology, but also to guide doctors of medical units, occupational pathologists in planning activities for social and medical rehabilitation.

The above approaches to the criteria for assessing risk in the analysis of occupational morbidity, based on the primary material - acts of investigation of occupational diseases and poisoning - are quite accessible to practicing doctors.

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