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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