Occupational Health

The course aims at providing students with:
i) scientific and cultural tools concerning the aetiology, the clinic and the criteria for diagnosis of the main work-related diseases;
ii) information concerning the criteria for assessing the loss of working ability and the levels of damage, together with the procedures for reporting work-related diseases;
iii) information on the meaning and use of the lists of occupational diseases existing in Italy and abroad;
iv) occupational diseases in current international classifications (ICD 10) and future (ICD 11);
v) essential information regarding the laws in the field of occupational health and safety.

The students will be able to:
i) do the diagnosis of the main work-related diseases together with the related principles of prevention;
ii) report an occupational disease through a correct use of the relative lists;
iii) address the various problems concerning occupational health and safety, both as object of the laws and as subjects responsible for the application of the laws in the health care system at any level.