Occupational exposure factors for mental and behavioral disorders at work: The FOREC thesaurus.

Background: Mental disorders in the workplace are a major public health problem. Knowledge of the impact of the psychosocial work environment on mental and behavioral disorders can assist occupational physicians in the identification and description of occupational risk situations, and help to define priority actions. However, no classification for occupational exposure factors is currently available.

Programmed health surveillance and detection of emerging diseases in occupational health: contribution of the French national occupational disease surveillance and prevention network (RNV3P).

Objective: The French national occupational disease surveillance and prevention network (RNV3P) includes the 30 occupational disease consultation centres in university hospitals to which patients are referred for potentially work-related diseases, and an occupational health service. The aim of this work is to demonstrate the contribution of RNV3P to national health surveillance.

Methods: Data from consultations are recorded in standardised occupational health reports and coded using international or national classifications.

[The National Occupational illness surveillance and Prevention Network (RNV3P) and health monitoring].

The National Occupational Illness Surveillance and Prevention Network (RNV3P) established in 2002 as a network of experts from 29 university hospitals as well as occupational physicians records and monitors occupational health problems (OHPs) based on Soccupational health consultations in university hospitals in mainland France and in occupational medical health services (approximately 5000 OHPs/year for patients seen in hospital consultations). The OHP data are collected systematically according to a standardised code which is attributed based on main variables of interest: disease and co-morbidity (CIM-10), 1-5 impact codes (INRS), an occupational code (ILO) and a code for the type and domain of professional activity (NAF-93). For certain problems recorded, the clinician also reports a degree of imputance for attributing the level of certainty for the problem's relationship to the S main illness (weak, probable, strong).

[Main carcinogens and epidemiology of occupational cancers].

Recent epidemiological studies estimate that the number of occupational cancers is high, as more than 3800 and up to 7000 cases occur each year in France in men. Attribuable fraction to occupational factors varies widely from one site of cancer to another. Respiratory cancers (lung and pleura) are by far the most frequent of occupational cancers with an attributable fraction of 13 to 29% for lung cancer in men according to the international literature, and an attributable fraction of 85% for pleural mesothelioma.