00699 - Occupational Medicine

Course contents

Occupational Medicine: general background and evolution of working conditions. Occupational accidents and diseases.

Occupational Medicine and Global Health: impact and prevention of occupational pathologies in developing countries.

Risk factors in the working environment (physical, chemical, biological agents, biomechanical and relational factors).

Risk Assessment: contents and methodology.

Auditory and extraauditory effects of exposure to noise.

Biological effects of occupational exposure to radiations.

Lung diseases due to dusts and other chemical agents: occupational asthma and pneumoconiosis.

Work-related skin diseases: occupational dermatitis.

Poisoning by pesticides and solvents.

Occupational infections.

Lung cancers and other work-related neoplasias.

Spinal pathology due to biomechanical overload.

Upper limb diseases due to exposure to biomechanical risk factors.

Shiftwork and nightwork.

Stress, Burn-out, Mobbing.

Absenteeism and Presenteeism.

Reference legislative frame.

Legislation for the protection of working mothers and reproduction risks.

Readings/Bibliography

1. Agius e Seaton: Practical Occupational Medicine, Hodder Arnold, 2006
2. Levy, Wegman, Baron, Sokas: Occupational and Environmental Health, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006
3. La Dou: Current Occupational & Environmental Medicine, Lange Medical Books/McGraw-Hill, 2007

Office hours

See the website of Francesco Saverio Violante