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 2017 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
Brittany 2 30 9% 2,706 9.1%
New Aquitaine 1 85 13% 6,510 5.9%
Occitanie 1 79 17% 5,963 8.0%
Pays-de-la-Loire 1 17 4% 1,824 13.4%
Grand Est 1 62 13% 4,156 7.8%
Centre-Val de Loire 2 25 10% 2,227 6.2%
Hauts-de-France 1 81 15% 12,783¤ 5.2%¤
National 9 381 12% 29,779 7.3%

Prevalence rates of MCP by sex (%)

Musculoskeletal disorders Mental distress Hearing disorders Irritation and/or allergy
H F H F M F H F
Brittany 4.1 6.4 2.2 5.5 * * * *
New Aquitaine 2.7 3.1 1.6 3.5 * * 0.4 *
Occitanie 4.1 4.3 2.0 4.6 0.5 * 0.3 *
Pays-de-la-Loire 7.5 7.0 3.0 7.0 * - 0.9 *
Grand Est 4.8 4.5 1.2 3.7 0.8 * 0.2 *
Centre-Val de Loire 3.4 3.7 1.2 3.9 * * * *
Hauts-de-France
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2.3 2.4 1.6 3.7 * 0.1 0.1 0.1
National 3.8 4.2 1.7 4.1 0.3 0.1 0.2 0.2

* Headcount less than 5.

¤Data has been aggregated for the years 2017 and 2018