Trends in occupational diseases in the Italian agricultural sector, 2004-2017.

Henk F van der MolenChiara MarsiliAndrea VitaliClaudio Colosio

Published in: Occupational and environmental medicine (2020)

In total, 1.3% of the Italian agricultural workers were diagnosed in 2017 as having an OD. Over a 14-year period, the annual incidence of ODs showed a considerable increasing trend consistent with changed eligibility reporting criteria for occupational MSDs and to a lesser extent for NIHL.

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