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Review
. 2021 May 31;18(11):5910.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph18115910.

Occupational Disease as the Bane of Workers' Lives: A Chronological Review of the Literature and Study of Its Development in Slovakia. Part 1

Miriama Piňosová  1 , Miriam Andrejiova  2 , Miroslav Badida  1 , Marek Moravec  1
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Occupational Disease as the Bane of Workers' Lives: A Chronological Review of the Literature and Study of Its Development in Slovakia. Part 1

Miriama Piňosová et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

This article not only offers a chronological overview of the development of occupational medicine, but also offers a summary of occupational diseases recommended by the ILO and legislative decisions that have influenced how we approach assessment today. We consider that these areas form a whole in which they cannot function without each other and they would lose their relevance if the system was collapsed. By excluding even one part of it, we would find ourselves at the beginning of the era of occupational medicine, and a large number of employees would once again be exposed to conditions that previously led to considerable illness and mortality of employees. The article also examines legislation and the development of occupational diseases in Slovakia in the period 1997-2019. Using basic statistical methods and time series, a trend model for the time series of the development of the number of occupational diseases over the last 20 years is created. The modeling also includes a forecast for the development of the number of occupational diseases for the next 5 years. The model created shows a favorable, decreasing trend in the number of occupational diseases in Slovakia.

Keywords: Slovakia; chronology; occupational diseases; recommendation; time series; timeline.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Location of the Slovakia in the EU [Base https://maproom.net/, accessed on 22 April 2021].
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Figure 2
Timeline of the most important reformers of occupational medicine [Source: authors].
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Figure 3
Map of articles in the field of occupational medicine starting with B. Ramazzini [Source: authors].
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Figure 4
ILO Timeline [Source: authors].
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Figure 5
Development of the number of occupational diseases in Slovakia (1987–2019).
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Figure 6
Development of the number of occupational disease cases in terms of selected types of disease (1987–2019).
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Figure 7
Percentage of the number of cases in terms of selected types of disease (1987–2019).
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Figure 8
Development of the number of diseases in terms of the gender of workers (2000–2019).
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Figure 9
Development of the number of occupational diseases by age category (2000–2019).
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Figure 10
Development of the number of occupational diseases by economic activity sector (2000–2019).
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Figure 11
Development and forecast of the number of occupational diseases [Output: R].
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