title: [Obligations and penal responsibilities of physicians, especially factory doctors, in regard to the protection of workers' health].
abstract: The paper comments on the rôle of health surveillance as a tool for the safeguarding of workers' health on the basis of constitutional principles. The author discusses the concept of health status and disease from the forensic medicine and juridical viewpoint and describes the obligations that are common to all medical practitioners (diagnosis, notification to the Local Health Unit) and the particular obligations of some categories of physicians, especially factory doctors. The responsibility of the physician in the case of crimes of omission of duty is considered. In responsibility for crimes of injury, the author deals with the professional responsibility of both the general practitioner and of the factory doctor in particular, the general liabilities of the employer, and the relationship between the liabilities of the employer and the physician. The paper conclude with comments on some aspects of negligence of the physician appointed to carry out health surveillance of the workers.
mesh_terms: D005194:Family Practice / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008318:Malpractice / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D009786:Occupational Health Services; D009787:Occupational Medicine / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D010820:Physicians / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D000078329:Workforce
vernacular_title: Obblighi e responsabilità penali dei sanitari, in particolare dei medici di fabbrica, in relazione alla tutela della salute dei lavoratori.