Occupational Disease Surveillance

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Estimated number of cases reported OPRA 2000

Mental illness 3315

Hearing loss 348

Musculoskeletal 5368

Respiratory 673

Other 412

Skin 1699

6% Respirator

14% Skin

45% Musculoskeletal

3% Hearing loss

28% Mental illness

4% Other

100% Total cases = 11803

Estimated number of cases by diagnostic category by year (OPRA 1996-2000)

0

1000

2000

3000

4000

5000

6000

7000

Respiratory Skin Musculo Hearing loss Mentalillness

Other

1996 = 11883

1997 = 9754

1998 = 11062

1999 = 12103

2000 = 11803

Reasons for medical consultation by disease categories (OPRA 2000)

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

Routine health surveillance

Pre-placement

Sickness absence

Early retirement

Employer referral

Self referral

Medico legal

HSE investigation

Musculo Mental Respiratory Skin Hearing

45% of all cases is Musculoskeletal disorders

Estimated number of cases reported in SWORD 2000 by consultant chest physicians

Infectious

Inhal accid

A. alveolitis

Bronchitis

Others

PneumoconiosisLung cancer

Mesothelioma

benign pleural

Asthma

Asthma = 496 (16%)

Inhalation accidents = 48 (2%)

Allergic alveolitis = 38 (1%)

Bronchitis /emphysema = 119 (4%)

Infectious disease = 53 (2%)

Benign pleural = 1059 (34%)

Mesothelioma = 923 (29%)

Lung cancer = 125 (4%)

Pneumoconiosis = 244 (8%)

Others = 98 (3%)

Total cases = 3135 (100%)

Proportion of cases in each disease category

5.1

10.6

21.8

21.9

1.7

2.1

1.9

6.8

19.6

5

0.6

3.7

3.4

2.2

0.7

17.7

48.426.8

2.9

2.7

0 10 20 30 40 50 60

other

pneumoconiosis

cancer

mesothelioma

benign pleural

infectious

bronchitis

alveolitis

inhal acc

asthma

OPRA

SWORD

Respiratory diseases as reported to SWORD (1989-2000) and OPRA (1996-2000)

Estimated number of cases reported in EPIDERM 2000 by consultant dermatologists

Nail1

Neoplasia468

Others51

Contact urticaria

123

Mechanical 50

Infective4

Folliculitis24

Contact dermatitis

2243

78.0% Contact dermatitis

4.3% Contact urticaria

0.8% Folliculitis /acne

0.1% Infective

1.7% Mechanical

0.03% Nail

16.3% Neoplasia

1.8% Others

100.0% Total cases = 2876

Proportion of cases in each disease category

82.2

5.0

0.6

4.7

0.3

0.5

0.2

7.4

0.6

1.9

1.3

0.6

13.2

1.9

3.6

79.2

0.0 10.0 20.0 30.0 40.0 50.0 60.0 70.0 80.0 90.0

Contact Dermatitis

Contact Urticaria

Folliculitis/Acne

Infective

Mechanical/Traumatic

Nail Disease

Neoplasia

Other Dermatoses

OPRA

EPIDERM

Skin diseases as reported toEPIDERM (1993-2000) and OPRA (1996-2000)

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