Occupational Disease as the Bane of Workers’ Lives: A Chronological Review of the Literature and Study of Its Development in Slovakia. Part 1

Miriama Piňosová, Miriam Andrejiova, Miroslav Badida and Marek Moravec
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Miriama Piňosová: Department of Process and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Košice, 040 01 Košice, Slovakia
Miriam Andrejiova: Department of Applied Mathematics and Informatics, Technical University of Košice, 040 01 Košice, Slovakia
Miroslav Badida: Department of Process and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Košice, 040 01 Košice, Slovakia
Marek Moravec: Department of Process and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Košice, 040 01 Košice, Slovakia

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 11, 1-29

Abstract: This article not only offers a chronological overview of the development of occupational medicine, but also offers a summary of occupational diseases recommended by the ILO and legislative decisions that have influenced how we approach assessment today. We consider that these areas form a whole in which they cannot function without each other and they would lose their relevance if the system was collapsed. By excluding even one part of it, we would find ourselves at the beginning of the era of occupational medicine, and a large number of employees would once again be exposed to conditions that previously led to considerable illness and mortality of employees. The article also examines legislation and the development of occupational diseases in Slovakia in the period 1997–2019. Using basic statistical methods and time series, a trend model for the time series of the development of the number of occupational diseases over the last 20 years is created. The modeling also includes a forecast for the development of the number of occupational diseases for the next 5 years. The model created shows a favorable, decreasing trend in the number of occupational diseases in Slovakia.

Keywords: chronology; timeline; occupational diseases; recommendation; time series; Slovakia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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