[Current situation of occupational diseases in physicians and medical personnel]

Abstract

In the introduction the social law bias of occupational diseases, the current list of occupational diseases and the importance of injuries to health by work and occupation are presented. Regarding physicians as a whole and the medical staff it refers to a numerically important occupational group. It has different scope of duties, it is not homogeneous structured and shows different potentials of danger. It is therefore appropriate to separate into three spheres of danger. The occupational hazards of physicians and the medical staff are wellknown. The existing statistics from the period 1978 to 1983 and the documentation of occupational diseases from 1984 to 1988 are discussed. In the three spheres of danger the infectious diseases and the skin diseases are numerically important. In the last ten years a considerable reduction of job related infectious diseases can be recorded, the number of toxic and allergic skin diseases remains constant. Improved hygienic conditions, health surveillance examinations has created positive influences on the process of occupational diseases in the field of medical health care occupations.