Incidence of health care professionals

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2022: The incidence among health workers in Russia has decreased 2.7 times in 9 years

In 2022, medical and social workers in Russia were 2.7 times less likely to have occupational diseases than in 2013. This is evidenced by the data of Rospotrebnadzor, published in June 2023.

As the publication "Medical Bulletin" writes with reference to the materials of the department, every seventh (14%) employee in Russia, who first received occupational disease in 2022, works in the field of health and social services. For 10 thousand people employed in this area, 1.52 people have a professional disease. The indicator almost did not decrease even compared to the pandemic 2020 - then it was 1.9.

One in seven workers in Russia, who first received occupational disease in 2022, works in the field of health and social services

In the group of diseases "caused by the impact of biological factors," the first place is occupied by diseases caused by the coronavirus COVID-19 - they account for 91.44%. Tuberculosis is in second place (6.14%), brucellosis is in third place (0.97%). In 2022, one case of occupational disease caused by HIV infection was also registered (0.16%).

The main reasons for the development of acute occupational diseases were contact with an infectious agent (91.25%), other reasons (5.14%) and imperfection of personal protective equipment (2.28%).

According to Rospotrebnadzor, the level of professional morbidity in the Russian Federation in 2022 compared to 2013 decreased by 44.13% and amounted to 1.00 per 10,000 workers (2021 - 1.09, 2020 - 0.78, 2019 - 1.03, 2018 - 1.17, 2017 - 1.31, 2016 - 1.47, 2015 - 1.65, 2014 - 1.74, 2013 - 1.79). In total, in 2022, 4286 cases of occupational diseases were established in 3530 people (in 2013 - 8175 cases in 6993 people). Experts noted a trend towards a decrease in the absolute number of cases with a newly diagnosed occupational disease (poisoning) from 8175 cases in 2013 to 4286 cases in 2022.^[1]

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