title: [Health management of Italian workers abroad].
abstract: In the last 20 years traveling workers abroad have increased markedly. This resulted in the need for standardized preventive tools available to protect workers-travelers in geographic areas with related additional risk factors. Health surveillance of these workers require a company organization that involves the components of the process prior: the occupational physician, safety service, administrative areas, travel clinic. The application phases of medical surveillance must be differentiated into two main phases: 1. pre-travel, in which successive stages also encoded by the SIMLII guidelines; 2. the return journey, where the paths are different for asymptomatic and symptomatic workers. The evaluation of fitness to perform the job abroad is based on general criteria that allow to correlate the health of the worker with respect to the destination area. The application methods actually available allow modulations of the health surveillance for companies of different dimension.
authors.affiliation: Servizio Sanitario Aziendale, Rai Radiotelevisione Italiana, Viale Mazzini 14, 00195 Roma, Italy. p.bianco@rai.it
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bianco
authors.forename: Vincenzo
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Nicosia
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ieraci
authors.forename: Vincenza
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Anzelmo
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D016272:Occupational Health; D011159:Population Surveillance; D014171:Transients and Migrants