title: [Occupational medicine was born in the unified Italy: the statistical and epidemiological roots of the new discipline].
abstract: Occupational Medicine was born in the unified Italy, thanks to the contributions of statistics and epidemiology. In Milan, since the Medieval Ages there had been systems for recording health data (e.g. deaths and their presumed causes), but these data were analyzed only during the 19th century. In this context the "Accademia Fisio-Medico-Statistica di Milano" was founded in 1844. Its members led pioneering statistical and epidemiological surveys, which opened the debate on social and health problems related to work. So, the activities of the Accademia promoted the development of the appropriate climate for the birth of Occupational Medicine in Milan.
authors: Centro di Studio e Ricerca sulla Sanità Pubblica (CeSP), Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Ospedale San Gerardo di Monza, Via Pergolesi 33, 20900 Monza, Italy. michele.riva@unimib.it
authors: M A
authors: MA
authors: Riva
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Cesana
mesh_terms: D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000266:history*; D009787:Occupational Medicine / Q000266:history*