[Analysis of notifications of suspicions of diseases caused by the way the job is performed in the context of pathologies regarded as occupational diseases].

Background: In this report the increase in the number of notifications of suspicions of diseases caused by the way the job is per formed, observed recently in the Regional Center of Occupational Medicine in Wroclaw, is highlighted. The problem stems from the recognition of medical certification of such diseases as occupational diseases only in one third of all notifications of suspicions.

Material And Methods: The case study was based on statistical data concerning notifications of suspected occupational diseases collected in the Branches of the Regional Center of Occupational Medicine in Wroclaw in the years 2006-2011, as well as on medical certificates issued by the Center's Out-patient Clinics of Occupational Diseases.