title: A review of occupational disease surveillance systems in Modernet countries.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  To improve occupational health public policies and to facilitate coordinated research within the European Union to reduce the incidence of occupational diseases (ODs), it is important to know what OD surveillance systems exist and how they compare. Monitoring trends in occupational diseases and tracing new and emerging risks in a network (Modernet) participants are well placed to provide this information as most either contribute data to and/or are involved in the management of OD systems.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To identify and describe OD surveillance systems in Modernet countries with the longer-term objective of identifying a core template to be used on a large scale.
  
  
  METHODS
  A questionnaire sent to Modernet participants, seeking structured information about the OD surveillance system(s) in their country.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Overall 14 countries (70%) provided information for 33 OD systems, among them 11 compensation-based (CB) systems. Six countries provided information for non-CB systems reporting for any type of OD. The other systems reported either only ODs from a prescribed list, or specific diagnoses or diagnostic groups, with reports to most schemes being physician-based. Data collected varied but all systems collected diagnosis, age, gender, date reported and occupation (and/or industry) and most collected information on exposure.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This review provides information beneficial to both policy makers and researchers by identifying data sources useable to measure OD trends in European countries and opening the way to future work, both on trend comparisons within Europe and on the definition of a core template to extend OD surveillance on a larger scale.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK, melanie.carder@manchester.ac.uk.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Carder
authors.affiliation: Occupational Diseases Department, University Hospital of Centre of Paris COCHIN, AP-HP , 27 Rue du Faubourg Saint Jacques, 75014 Paris, France.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bensefa-Colas
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, via Massarenti 9 - 40138 Bologna, Italy.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mattioli
authors.affiliation: Occupational Health Service, Health Service Executive, Dublin-North East, A92 XF61, Ireland.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Noone
authors.affiliation: Medical Faculty, Public Health Institute, UKIM, ul. 50 Divizija br. 6, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Stikova
authors.affiliation: Département Santé Travail/Institut de veille sanitaire, 12, rue du Val d'Osne, 94415 Saint Maurice, France.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Valenty
authors.affiliation: Observatoire régional de santé Île-de-France, 43 rue Beaubourg, 75003 Paris, France, Anses, Direction de l'Evaluation des risques, 14 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 94701 Maisons-Alfort Cedex, France.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Telle-Lamberton
mesh_terms: D005060:Europe / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007221:Industry / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology*; D009790:Occupations; D011640:Public Policy; D018571:Sentinel Surveillance; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014942:Workers' Compensation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*
keywords: Epidemiological surveillance; Europe; Modernet; occupational disease.