Specificke rysy posuzovani prenosnych a parazitarnich nemoci z povolani
Hrncir, E.; Kneidlova, M.
Pracovni Lekarstvi 54(2): 87-89
2002
ISSN/ISBN: 0032-6291 Document Number: 333928
When evaluating and assessing infectious and parasitic occupational diseases we encounter some special features. In particular the following specific features are involved: 1. Assessment and notification of these diseases usually takes place at a time when these diseases no longer persist. 2. A certain infectious or parasitic disease can be recorded and notified as an occupational disease several times consecutively. 3. It is no rational value to assess how long before detection of the occupational disease the patient was exposed to the risk, i. e. the action of the infectious agent. 4. Infectious and parasitic diseases as a rule do not lead to transfer of the workers from the work he performed so far. 5. The majority of diseases is cured completely. 6. The predominating part of patients is not entitled to damages for lost wages after termination of sick leave. 7. Enlistment of some diseases into a certain category of occupational diseases is not necessarily unequivocal. 8. It is very difficult to define more accurately the risk that the worker while doing a certain occupation will contract an infectious or parasitic disease. 9. Under conditions of the present legislation it cannot be ruled out that the number of infectious and parasitic diseases accepted as occupational diseases will increase many times even if the frequency of these diseases in the population does not change significantly. 10. In these diseases it does not make sense to use the term risk of occupational disease.