The OCCAM project : an innovative Italian approach to an old problem
Crosignani, Paolo ; Marinaccio, Alessandro ; Audisio, Roberto ; Amendola, Plinio ; Scaburri, Alessandra ; Imbriani, Marcello
2008
34
24-26
cancer ; methodology ; notification of occupational diseases ; occupational disease ; occupation disease relation ; statistics
Occupational diseases
English
"The Italian Occupational Safety Act (legislative decree 626/94) provides for the establishment of a nation-wide occupational cancer registry, under the auspices of the National Institute for Occupational Health (ISPESL), tasked with identifying both activities associated with a risk of cancer, and cancer cases likely to be of occupational origin. With a view to setting-up such a system, the National Cancer Institute of Milan and ISPESL began working together in 2000 to evaluate the potential of using the computerized past employment database kept since 1974 by the Italian National Institute for Social Security (INPS). This stores the name of the employing fi rm and industry sector in which Italian private sector workers are employed for each year of employment."
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