Health statistics indicators as a factor in accounting for occupational morbidity

Introduction When analyzing the risk of the impact of harmful factors on the health of employees, some researchers explain the low incidence of occupational diseases in Russia by errors in their detection during preventive examinations, lack of interest of employers and employees in the detection and registration of these diseases, and other reasons. At the same time, we did not find any works in the literature devoted to errors in coding of diagnoses of occupational diseases and their registration.

The purpose of the work is to identify the cause of poor accounting of occupational diseases in Russia.

Materials and methods The work was carried out on the basis of the Industrial Register of persons with occupational diseases. The registry was developed by the A.I. Burnazyan Federal Medical and Biological Center and has been in commercial operation since 2011. As of 31.12.2020, the register contains information about 2 300 patients with occupational diseases from among the employees of enterprises and organizations served by the health care institutions of FMBA of Russia. Directive documents on identification and registration of occupational diseases were analyzed.

Results and discussion Analysis of the health of the working contingent and the subsequent creation of plans for medical and rehabilitation measures to reduce the incidence of occupational diseases among persons working at enterprises and organizations that are on dispensary registration in health care institutions of FMBA of Russia, requires knowledge of correct morbidity indicators about them. For this purpose, it is necessary to improve the registration of occupational diseases in Russia by switching to the diagnosis coding system adopted in the country’s sanitary statistics, and to make appropriate changes in policy documents.

Conclusion One of the reasons for errors in recording occupational diseases is the violation of classification principles in the Order of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of Russia No 417n.

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