[Epidemiology of work-related diseases in ULSS 12 Venice (Italy)]

Abstract

In Veneto, like in Italy, in the last years the course of the professional diseases shown a trend in reduction. This trend has had to the difficulty to recognize the professional aetiology of multifactorial diseases. In the Venice the analysis of the course of the professional diseases in last the 4-5 years has demonstrated an increase of the communications of diseases from the doctors who operate in hospital to the SPISAL for the active search for pathologies asbestos and CVM correlated; moreover it has been a reduction of the hearing loss from noise from 2000 and it has been increment of cancer of lung and mesothelioma from 2001. Emergent diseases, like the allergy, the back diseases and those tied to the organizational constriction, are sottostimate. They have been a collaboration with the doctors of hospital, the doctors of factories, the INAIL and the court.