Challenges for preventive occupational medicine and toxicology
Authors:
E. Fabiánová
Authors‘ workplace:
Regionálny úrad verejného zdravotníctva v Banskej Bystrici, vedúci pracoviska doc. MUDr. Cyril Klement, CSc.
Published in:
Pracov. Lék., 62, 2010, No. 2, s. 69-73.
Category:
Review article
Overview
The paper summarizes the implementation of goals of health protection at work by national strategies and documents as well as international documents of EU and World Health Organization. Public health offices focus on decreasing risks at work, increasing health protection at work with dangerous factors and prevention of the most frequent and serious diseases related to work. The positive trend in development of risks at work is evaluated in relation to risk factors, employment, life style risk factors and consequences on development of health status. The importance of participation at the process of development and adaptation of legislative directives in the SR and EU is stressed. The third list of exposure limits to chemical substances, preparation of new legislation on carcinogens applying mechanistic knowledge, preparation of new directives on prevention of musculoskeletal damages from work is under the process of development. The current challenge is the inclusion to international epidemiological studies on cancer diseases related to work and recently to research in the field of evaluation of exposure to nanoparticles. The importance of close, effective collaboration with clinical occupational medicine as well as other sectors of public health and distribution of specialized resources in relation to solving health at work is stressed.
Key words:
risky jobs, health status, life style, exposure limits, legislation, carcinogens
Sources
1. BODNÁROVÁ, B. Starnutie populácie a predlžovanie pracovného života na Slovensku. Rodina a práca, 2009, 2, s. 5–25.
2. BOLT, H., DEGAN,G. Human carcinogenic risk evaluation, Part II. Contribution of the Eurotox Specialty Section for Carcinogenesis. Toxicological Sciencies: Oxford University Pres, 2004, 81, 1, 2004, s. 3–6.
3. Commission Directive 2009/161/EU of 17 December 2009 establishing a third list of indicative occupational exposure limit value in implementation of the Council Cirective 98/24/EC and amending Commission Directive 2000/39/C.
4. EUROPEAN AGENCY FOR SAFETY AND HEALTH AT WORK. Workplace Exposure to nanoparticles. European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, Bilbao, Spain, 2009, 25 s.
5. FABIÁNOVÁ, E., ZATONSKI, W., MANCZUK, M., NÁMEŠNÁ, J., VOJTEKOVÁ, S. Porovnanie vybraných ukazovateľov zdravia v SR a v EÚ. In Životné podmienky a zdravie. Bratislava: ÚVZ SR, SLS, 2009, s. 17–22. [on line] [citované 2009-09-21]. Dostupné na www: <http://fmed.uniba.sk/fileadmin/user_upload/editors/ustavy/hygiena/aZPaZ_2009.pdf>
6. International Agency for Research on Cancer. A review of human carcinogens. Part F: chemical agents and related occupations. Monographs Meeting – 100F. Lyon: IARC, 2009, 33 s.
7. International Agency for Research on Cancer. Tobacco Smoke and Involuntory Smoking. IARC Monographs on Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans. Voumen 83. Lyon: IARC, 2002, 12 s.
8. Ministerstvo Zdravotníctva SR. Koncepcia v odbore preventívne pracovné lekárstvo a toxikológia. Vestník MZ SR, 2008, 56, čiastka 12–19, normatívna časť 15, s. 106–114.
9. Úrad verejného zdravotníctva Slovenskej republiky. Programové vyhlásenie vlády SR na úseku verejného zdravotníctva na roky 2006–2010. Bratislava: ÚVZ SR, 2006, 20 s. Dostupné na www: <http://uvzsr.sk/docs/ppvvz.pdf>
10. Úrad verejného zdravotníctva Slovenskej republiky. Výročná správa o činnosti RÚVZ v SR v roku 2008. Bratislava: ÚVZ SR. 2009. 811 s. Dostupné na www: <http://www.uvzsr.sk/docs/vs/vyrocna_sprava_SR_08.pdf>
11. SIEMIATYCKI, J., RICHARDSON, L., STRAIF, K. et al. Listing Occupational Carcinogens. Environmental helath Perspectives. 2004, 112, 15, s. 1447–1459.
12. ŠTATISTICKÝ ÚRAD SR. Priemerný evidenčný počet zamestnancov vo fyzických osobách v podnikoch s 20 a viac zamestnancami. 1Q 2008-1Q 2009 indexy. Bratislava : Štatistický úrad SR, 2009. Dostupné na www: <http://portal.statistics.sk/showdoc.do?docid=1801>
13. ZATONSKI, W., MANCZUK, M., SULKOWSKA, U. Uzatváranie zdravotných rozdielov v Európskej únii. Profil krajiny: Slovensko. Varšava : Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, 2008, 51 s.
Labels
Hygiene and epidemiology Hyperbaric medicine Occupational medicineArticle was published in
Occupational Medicine
2010 Issue 2
Most read in this issue
- Analysis of the impact of sedentary occupation on damaging the back
- Asthma bronchiale in the car industry – a case study
- Challenges for preventive occupational medicine and toxicology
- Prevalence of risk factors of cardiovascular diseases in manual workers and application of the SCORE system in occupational medical practice