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 2019 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
New Aquitaine 2 86 14% 8,625 7.5%
Pays de la Loire 2 17 4% 1,121 11.8%
Brittany 2 26 9% 2,108 7.7%
Antilles 2 12 30% 1,301

11.1% ¤¤

Grand Est 2 61 13% 7,377 7.2% ¤¤
Hauts-de-France 2 82 16% 5,740 5.9%
Centre-Val de Loire 2 33 14% 3,360 5.8%
National 16 300 11% 29,010 8.9%

Prevalence rates of MCP by sex (%)

Musculoskeletal disorders Mental distress Hearing disorders Irritation and/or allergy
H F H F M F H F
Nouvelle-Aquitaine 2.3 4.6 2.2 5.2 0.1 * 0.2 *
Pays de la Loire 4.1 6.9 4.4 8 0.1 0.1 *
Brittany 1.8 4.6 2.2 6.0 * * * *
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
Hauts-de-France 2.1 2.4 2.2 4.8 * * * *
Centre-Val de Loire 1.7 4.0 2.3 2.8 0.3 - * 0.4
National ¤ 3.5 5.3 2.6 5.8 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.2

* Sample size less than 5.

¤ Since 2019, all indicators have been adjusted for gender, age, socio-professional category, and economic sector.

¤¤ The data has been aggregated for the years 2018 and 2019