Occupational Infectious Diseases or Infectious Occupational Diseases? Bridging the Views on Tuberculosis Control

1993 ◽  
Vol 14 (12) ◽  
pp. 686-688 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Louise Gerberding
2021 ◽  
pp. 7-11
Author(s):  
S.A. Babanov

The indicators of occupational morbidity in the Samara Region and its dynamics in the context of the pandemic of the novel coronavirus infection COVID-19 are presented. In 2020, out of 127 acute and chronic occupational diseases diagnosed in 11 months, 22.05 % (28 cases) were diagnosed with professional sensorineural hearing loss, 5.51 % (7 cases) with dust lung diseases, 5.51 % (7 cases) — atrophic rhinopharyngolaryngitis, in 3.94 % (5 cases) — occupational allergies in the form of occupational bronchial asthma and eczema, in 3.94 % (5 cases) — vibration disease, in 1.57 % (2 cases) — chronic occupational radiculopathy, in 0.79 % (1 case) — oncological occupational pathology (dermatosarcoma of the hand), in 3.14 % (4 cases) — occupational infectious diseases (except for COVID-19).


2000 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 256-275
Author(s):  
Jerrold B. Leikin ◽  
Andrew Davis ◽  
David A. Klodd ◽  
Thomas Thunder ◽  
Geoffrey A. Kelafant ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhenggang Liu

Although the country has achieved leapfrog development in recent years, all walks of life have made great progress, but due to the short development time, there is still a certain gap in laws and systems compared with developed countries, and there is still a lot to improve the place. For example, the current legal concept of "work-related injury" is absent, and the concepts of "occupational infectious disease" and "occupational disease" have not been censored. Actually, there are no clear regulations and implementation when the identification is carried out. At this stage, the lack of general provisions for the identification of workrelated injuries and the closure of the identification of occupational infectious diseases have made the application of the law for the identification of work-related injuries of infectious diseases quite embarrassing. Based on this, this article elaborates on the legal application dilemma existing in the identification of work-related injuries of infectious diseases, and puts forward some opinions based on its own practical experience, hoping to have a certain reference significance for improving the legal application of workrelated injury identification of infectious diseases in my country.


Author(s):  
Annie Thébaud-Mony ◽  
translated by Meredeth Turshen

Since World War II, a tradition of fighting infectious diseases had proven its worth in stopping chains of contamination and controlling diseases. Contradicting this tradition, the choices made in France regarding the COVID-19 pandemic failed to prevent deaths and protect the most exposed populations. Workers, in particular, are the victims of this failure. Based on the experience of tuberculosis control, this article shows that another strategy is not only possible, but crucial to overcome such epidemic.


Author(s):  
Railya V. Garipova ◽  
Leonid A. Strizhakov ◽  
Karina T. Umbetova ◽  
Kadriya R. Safina

Introduction. Infectious diseases occupy a leading place in the structure of occupational diseases (OD) of health care workers (HCW). If until 2020, the main OD from exposure to a biological factor were tuberculosis and viral hepatitis (VH), then in 2020 the world faced another infectious disease of professional etiology - infection of health workers with a new coronavirus infection (COVID-19). The aim of the study is to identify problematic issues in establishing the connection of an infectious disease with a profession in health care workers. Materials and methods. A retrospective analysis of cases of occupational diseases was applied according to the data of the Department of Rospotrebnadzor for the Republic of Tatarstan (RT) and the register of patients of the Republican Center of Occupational Pathology. Results. Among the health care workers of the Republic of Tatarstan, mainly occupational infectious diseases are diagnosed (88.9%). Tuberculosis is the most common occupational disease among health care workers of the Republic of Tatarstan, accounting for 68.4%, and viral hepatitis accounts for 20.5%. In 2020, the most common OD from biological factors in the health care workers of RT was infection COVID-19. Conclusions. Currently, the most common disease of infectious genesis in health care workers is a new coronavirus infection. For a high-quality examination of the connection of an infectious disease with a profession, the list of documents must include a card of epidemiological examination, which must be filled in by an epidemiologist not after establishing the connection of the disease with the profession, but in parallel with the preparation of a sanitary and hygienic characteristic (SGC) of working conditions.


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