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Data set notes

European Health for All database

Indicators: 565

Updated: 18 October 2024

Contact: Data and Digital Health Unit (DDH)

The following abbreviations are used in the indicator titles:

• SDR: age-standardized death rates (see HFA-DB user manual/Technical notes, page 13, for details)

• FTE: full-time equivalent

• PP: physical persons

• PPP$: purchasing power parities expressed in US $, an internationally comparable scale reflecting the relative domestic purchasing powers of currencies.

More information: http://www.euro.who.int/en/data-and-evidence/databases/european-health-for-all-database-hfa-db

Indicator notes

Number of new cases of occupational diseases
Indicator code: E255201.T

Occupational diseases such as dermatosis, silicosis, asthma, cancer, infections, poisonings and other diseases due to vibration, excessive load, noise etc. at the workplace. It is understood that national definitions and registration practices vary significantly._

Country/Area notes

Albania

Insurance System.

Armenia

Source of data: National Health Information Analytic Center, Ministry of Health of the Republic of
Armenia. Data collected annually, reference period: 31 December.

Belgium

Data source: Fund for Occupational Diseases. Remark: the data refer only to people working in the
private sector
(http://www.fmp-fbz.fgov.be/web/content.php?lang=nl&target=doctors#/documentations-annual-report)
1990 marks a slight break because a broader definition has been applied

Cyprus

No data are available

Czechia

Source: National Institute of Public Health, National Registry of Occupational Diseases. For years
1990 and 1991 data are not comparable because of reclassification.

Denmark

Source: From 2006 onward: Danish Working Environment Authority (www.at.dk)
Break in time series: from year 2010 to year 2011.

Estonia

Source: National Labour Inspectorate.

Finland

Source: Finnish Institute of Occupational Health.
Note: From 2005, data are not comparable to previous data due to new data collection system.
Includes both suspected and confirmed cases.
Note: The historical data from 1970 to 1974 seem very low compared to later values because Finland
passed a new legislation that urged physicians to report any occupation disease or work-related
medical conditions. This finally implemented the ILO Convention 81/1947, which was ratified already
in 1949 by our Parliament. The translation of the 1974 legislation can be found in English at:
http://www.finlex.fi/en/laki/kaannokset/1973/en19730954.

France

Source of data: insurance system

Germany

Source: Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and Federal Institute for Occupational Safety
and Health, Annual statistical report of the Federal Government on the state of safety and health at
work and on work accidents and occupational diseases in the Federal Republic of Germany.
http://osha.europa.eu/fop/germany/de/statistics/statistiken or http://www.gbe-bund.de
Coverage: The documentation of occupational diseases in the Federal Republic of Germany is a
complete enumeration. Data contain the number of new cases of recognized occupational diseases of
those insured by statutory accident insurance institutions. Occupational diseases are diseases,
which the federal government on the basis of õ 9 Abs. 1 SGB VII, by an ordinance, with agreement of
the Federal Council of Germany has named as occupational diseases and which persons insured suffer
because of the exercise of an insured activity. An occupational disease is considered as recognized,
if the suspicion of presence of an occupational disease via notification of occupational diseases is
confirmed in a declaratory procedure.
Break in time series: In 1992, a change in the social legislation took place which influences the
number of cases of certified occupational diseases. The years before 1992 are therefore not
comparable to the following years.
The sharp increase in the level of the trend in 2009 and onwards was probably due to the enlargement
by the federal government of the List of Occupational Diseases in July 2009.

Iceland

Data on occupational diseases has been incomplete and has therefore not been reported. A new
regulation on the reporting and registration of occupational diseases entered into force in Iceland
in 2011. This regulation is based on Commission Recommendation of 19 September 2003 concerning the
European schedule of occupational diseases (document number C(2003) 3297).
Source: Administration of Occupational Safety and Health in Iceland. Based on notified cases.

Israel

Since 1999 back injuries are excluded.
Source: National Insurance Institute.

Italy

Source: INAIL Open data. Cases of occupational diseases which have been compensated in each year.
The years 2010-2014 have been update to 31.10.2015.

Latvia

Note: The data fluctuations are based on many factors ? campaigns regarding occupational diseases,
more compulsory health examinations, etc. Besides, starting from 2013, more attention is paid on
damages of tendons and muscles.

Lithuania

Source: Occupational diseases register, Institute of Hygiene

Luxembourg

Total number of new certified occupational diseases. All industries. Agriculture, public
administration, army are included. Source: Association Assurance Accident (Safety Insurance
Association) within the social security scheme.

Malta

Source: Social Security Department, Ministry for the Family and Social Solidarity.

Montenegro

Data are not available.

Netherlands

Source: Netherlands Center for Occupational Diseases (NCvB).
The number is an estimate.

North Macedonia

Source: Registration professional diseases (in process of establishment); Institute for Public
Health (IPH)

Poland

Source of data: Institute of Occupational Medicine in Lodz.

Portugal

Source of data: Ministry of Solidarity and Social Security Coverage: National

Republic of Moldova

In 2014, no new cases of occupational diseases were registered in the Republic of Moldova.
The number of new cases of occupational diseases during the year is calculated:
ÿ- On the basis of accounting data cards of occupational diseases (form ?152) submitted to the
National Centre of Public Health annually.
- On the basis of the annual reporting forms ?18 (Table ?23), which was approved by the order of
Ministry of Health of the Republic of Moldova from 10.28.2014 ?1168, reported annually by the
regional centers of public health to the National Centre of Public Health.
The following table presents the summary data of all cases of occupational diseases in the Republic
of Moldova.

Romania

Source: National Institute for Public Health.

Serbia

No data are available.

Slovakia

Source. National Health Information Centre (NIC)
Selection of data - residents, respectively patients with permanent address in Slovakia (including
the homeless, residents without registration of permanent address, foreigners with permanent
address in Slovakia).

Spain

Source: Ministerio de Trabajo y Asuntos Sociales. Anuario de Estadisticas Laborales y de Asuntos
Sociales. Ministry of Employment and Social Segurity. Estatistics of work-related accidents and
occupational diseases
http://www.empleo.gob.es/estadisticas/eat/welcome.htm
Total number = with temporary disability + without temporary disability.
Data for 1997 are provisional data.

Sweden

Source: Swedish Work Environment Authority.
https://www.av.se/en/

Number of new cases of reported occupational diseases among employees and self-employed persons. Our
database ISA has no sufficient information on which cases have been certified. The file contains all
cases, reported from the work places.
Re 1993: Many diseases were reported during the first half of 1993, due to changed insurance
conditions (lower compensation). Intense campaigns by the trade unions, among others, contributed to
a doubling of the number of reported occupational diseases in 1993 compared to 1992.

Switzerland

Source of data: Coverage: Deviation from the definition: Estimation method: Break in time series:

Türkiye

Source of data: Republic of Turkey Social Security Institution.

Turkmenistan

Data are not available.