Data on occupational diseases among health personnel and workers of medicine-related industry in St. Petersburg
Boĭko, I.V.; Naumova, T.M.; Gerasimova, L.B.
Meditsina Truda i Promyshlennaia Ekologiia 1998(2): 29-32
1998
ISSN/ISBN: 1026-9428 PMID: 9553373 Document Number: 484920
A total of 105 occupational morbidity cases in health service workers were analyzed among 2914 occupational morbidity cases in St. Petersburg. Most of those cases among health service workers were drug allergies, tuberculosis was relatively rare. The study revealed low efficiency of periodic medical examinations conducted for early diagnosis of occupational diseases. Alarming evidence is rare diagnosis such occupational diseases as hands overstrain, strained working posture, disorders due to physical factors, viral B hepatitis.