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 2018 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 44 14% 3,602 8.4%
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%
Antilles 2 15 32% 1,483 11.1%¤¤

Grand Est

2 69 15% 7,377 7.2%¤¤
Centre-Val de Loire 2 34 14% 2,745 7.2%
Hauts-de-France 2 62 11% 12,783¤ 5.2%¤
National 17 430 13% 42,075 9.1%

Prevalence rate of MCP by gender (%)

Musculoskeletal disorders Mental health issues Hearing disorders Irritation and/or allergy
H F H F M F H F
Brittany 2.4 3.9 3.5 6.3 * * * *
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 *
Antilles
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3.4 5.8 2.9 7.5 * * 0.6 *
Grand Est
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3.2 4.2 2.1 4.0 0.3 * 0.2 0.3
Centre-Val de Loire 2.3 3.8 2.4 5.6

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* 0.3 *
Hauts-de-France
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2.3 2.4 1.6 3.7 * 0.1 0.1 0.1
National 3.7 4.7 2.7 6.2 0.2 <0.1 0.3 0.2

* Headcount less than 5.

¤ Data has been aggregated for the years 2017 and 2018

¤¤ Data has been aggregated for the years 2018 and 2019