[Model for an epidemiological study of the health status of a population of health workers].
The authors describe a model of retrospective research on the state of health in a sample of the staff in a big hospital. The sample was composed of selected sub-groups taken from professional categories notoriously exposed to risk at work. The aim was to help define a model in simple ad versatile epidemiologic research and by applying it to a sample population of health operators, to verify the extent, the prevalence and incidence, the evolution in pathologies in order to make comparisons with the normal population, thus making it easier, for future research, to study casual phenomena and correlate between them. General criteria of retrospective "control case" have been adopted and the anamnestic data gather in has been done by filling in the "health book of individual risk", together with special questionnaires for this investigation. The originality of this work consists in its having abandoned the concept of pre-determine the nature and size of the test sample. In fact, considering the large number of variables, they should have made use of much bigger dimensions than the ones of the population examined with the elaborated original model. Which mean it is possible to obtain significant and reliable results by operating on a reduced but statistically valid sample, chosen with random method and whose entity has been determined with support from others experience in different sector. Therefore it is reasonable to consider the described model as a simple, agile and economic instrument adaptable to other cases, although still to be perfected. In particular it underlines the possibility of testing the state of health of categories at risk before stating complicated analysis (and organi) or big populations, thus improving instruments ad organization. To accomplish a continuous system of data in a short time thus verifying the stages of development and application of more complex projects of epidemiologic research aimed at entire populations. To obtain useful information wherever it's not possible to conduct complete and rapid research on workers' health in an on going way.
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D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D006304:Health Status; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy / Q000453:epidemiology; D009017:Morbidity; D010564:Personnel, Hospital; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
Contributo per un modello d'indagine epidemiologica sullo stato di salute di una popolazione di operatori sanitari.