title: [Work and health: work-related disease].
abstract: Work and health interact with one another in the following ways: when work is adapted to human goals and capacities of men, work can play important role in promoting both physical and mental health; exposure to chemical, physical and biological risk factors, can lead to occupational diseases; both work environment and work condition can play a role, together with other risk factors, in the development of diseases characterized by a multiple etiology. Such diseases have been commonly called work-related. In occupational disease, there is a direct cause-effect relationship between hazard and disease, whereas in work-related disease, the work environment contributes, but as one of a number of factors, to the development of the disease. Because of their multifactorial and complex etiology, work-related diseases represent an interesting subject for epidemiological surveys. At the time, epidemiological study of work-related diseases can take the following forms. Descriptive studies relating morbidity to occupation, work area, task, or specific exposure can be concerned with anything from "hard" indicators of illness (such as death), to "soft; indicators (such as non-specific symptoms). Descriptive studies of work-related diseases utilizing the latter indicators of disease are usually study ad hoc, since morbidity registers do not exist for any disease in our country.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
mesh_terms: D006262:Health; D006801:Humans; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D012306:Risk; D014937:Work; D014938:Work Capacity Evaluation; D014940:Work Schedule Tolerance
vernacular_title: Lavoro e salute: la work-related disease.