Abstract

LOBATO CANON, José Rafael. Medical assessment on occupational pathology. Med. segur. trab. [online]. 2014, vol.60, suppl.1, pp.164-173. ISSN 1989-7790.

Introduction: Work is a source of mechanical, physical, chemical and biological health risks for workers, in addition to risks due to inadequate working conditions, which provide a pathological pattern consequence of the combination of repetitive trauma disorders, back problems, occupational cancer, genetic damage and psychosocial pathology. Objective: Establish the procedure to determine the occupational origin of diseases arising from work. Methodology: The diagnosis and assessment of Occupational Diseases (OD) is based on diagnostic criteria and employment exposure, and that of Work Accident (WA) is mainly based on legal criteria. Discussion: The diagnostic criteria of OD include diagnostic confirmation established in base of their clinical symptoms, signs, additional exploration and diagnostic tests. Employment criteria include risk exposure, timing, sensitive workers and extra-occupational factors that may be the main cause of the disease, environmental indicators, biological indicators, carcinogens, sensitizers, and ethical criteria in the assessment. The endpoints of the AT were based on legal and jurisprudential criteria. The steps the contingency determination process must follow were included, while it is determined the organism legally responsible for this.

Keywords : Occupational disease; work accident; contingency determination.

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