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 2022 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
Antilles** 4 11 (who participated in at least one two-week period) - 1,140 7.6%
Brittany 2 19 6% 1,432 9.9%
Centre-Val de Loire** 4 29 15% 3,679 4.6%
Grand Est 1 36 9% 2,944 5.7%
Hauts-de-France 2 46 9% 5,049 7.5%
Pays de la Loire** 5 13 4% 733 13.8%
New Aquitaine 2 36 9% 3,297 6.2%
National** 29 281 12% 38,533 9.4%

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
Antilles** 3.3 6.3 0.6 4.7 4.7 - 0.1 0.3
Brittany 3.7 4.5 2 10 * * * *
Centre-Val de Loire** 2.0 1.3 1.4 4.3 - * - *
Grand Est 2.5 3.2 1.6 3.3 0.2 - 0.1 0.1
Hauts-de-France 2.4 4.3 2.1 4.8 - - - -
Pays de la Loire** 7.8 8.2 3.8 8.2 - - * *
Nouvelle-Aquitaine 2.5 3.5 0.9 4.8 - - - -
National** 4.4 4.9 2.3 6.7 0.1 <0.1 0.2 <0.2

* Sample size less than 5.

**:
Data for the Antilles have been aggregated for the years 2020, 2022, and 2023.
Data for the Centre-Val de Loire region have been aggregated for the years 2021–2022. Data for the Pays
de la Loire region have been aggregated for the years 2020, 2021, and 2022. National
data have been aggregated for the years 2022 and 2023

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