Occupational diseases

Occupational diseases are defined as any illness that may be work-related but is not recognized as an occupational disease by a social security system.

Our missions

  • Monitoring the epidemiological trends of occupational diseases

  • Enabling the adaptation of preventive measures

  • Provide data to update occupational disease tables

  • Estimating underreporting of occupational diseases

Results of the 2016 MCP Fortnightly Competitions

Participating regions

The results presented in the tables below have already been published regionally.

 

Number of two-week periods 

Participating
occupational physicians 

Participation
rate 

Number of employees
seen 

Reporting
rate 

Alsace 

2 

24 

9% 

2,071 

8.9% 

Aquitaine 

2 

47 

12% 

7,029 

2.7% 

Auvergne 

2 

20 

13% 

2,086 

4.9% 

Centre-Val de Loire 

2 

37 

14% 

4,890 

6.6% 

Brittany 

2 

47 

16% 

5,787 

7.7% 

Lorraine 

3 

30 

5.6% 

2,456 

7.3% 

Occitanie 

2 

69 

20% 

8,696 

6.7% 

Pays de la Loire 

2 

12 

3% 

783 

6.3% 

National 

17 

333 

 

37,867 

5.8% 

Prevalence rates of MCP by sex (%) 

Musculoskeletal disorders 

Mental health issues 

Hearing disorders 

Irritation and/or allergy 

 

H 

F 

H 

F 

M 

F 

H 

F 

Aquitaine 

1.0 

1.4 

0.7 

1.9 

* 

* 

* 

* 

Alsace 

3.8 

6.6 

2.8 

4.0 

0.5 

* 

* 

* 

Auvergne 

1.6 

2.8 

* 

4.4 

* 

* 

* 

- 

Brittany 

3.7 

3.8 

2.0 

5.4 

0.1 

- 

0.3 

0.6 

Centre-Val de Loire 

2.9 

3.8 

2.0 

4.0 

* 

- 

0.2 

0.2 

Lorraine 

4.2 

5.3 

1.1 

4.6 

* 

- 

* 

* 

Occitanie 

3.0 

4.0 

1.7 

3.9 

0.3 

* 

0.1 

0.3 

Pays de la Loire 

1.6 

2.2 

3.0 

5.3 

- 

- 

- 

- 

National 

2.8 

3.4 

1.4 

3.6 

0.2 

<0.1 

0.2 

0.2