Occupational Diseases Reporting System in Romania

Description of the occupational diseases reporting system in Romania is the main objective of this paper. Here are presented the four steps of the reporting system of occupational diseases: indicating is the procedure used to indicate for the first time that a disease might be an occupational disease; investigation is the procedure systematically performed in order to ascertain the nature of the reported occupational disease; adjudging occupational diseases; reporting is the procedure used to communicate information on occupational diseases declared, according to law, to the National Institute of Public Health and to the National Centre for Organization and Provision of the Information and IT System in the Health Care Domain Bucharest. The results of reporting data system are presented in the second part of this paper reflecting the specific morbidity in Romania in the last years, according to data provided by National Institute of Statistics. The paper is part of results of the Eurostat grants for 2009, Theme-Health and Safety, "Consolidation of methodologies for the collection of the data on accidents at work and occupational diseases" where the first author was a member of the project's team as an expert of the National Institute of Statistics.