COVID‑19 as an occupational disease

Şimşek, Ceprail; Alıcı, Nur Şafak; Coskun Beyan, Ayse

doi:10.4103/ejop.ejop_50_20

COVID‑19 as an occupational disease

Nur ŞAFAK ALICI, (Dr. Suat Seren Göğüs Hastalıkları ve Cerrahi Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Tıbbi iş Bölümü, İzmir, Türkiye)

Ayşe BEYAN, (Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi, Tıbbi iş Bölümü, İzmir, Türkiye)

Cebrail ŞİMŞEK (Atatürk Göğüs Hastalıkları ve Göğüs Cerrahisi Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Tıbbi iş Bölümü, Ankara, Türkiye)

Eurasian Journal of Pulmonology

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Yıl: 2020 Cilt: 22 Sayı: 1 Sayfa Aralığı: 90 - 100 Metin Dili: İngilizce DOI: 10.4103/ejop.ejop_50_20 İndeks Tarihi: 29-12-2020

COVID‑19 as an occupational disease

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During the pandemic of coronavirus in our country and in the world, workers and particularlyhealth‑care personnel, the frontline fighters, are known to develop the disease and even die dueto exposure in the process. According to international definitions and our national legislation, ifhealth‑care personnel are infected while they are performing their job and at their workplace, thecondition will be defined as an occupational accident and the disease as an occupational disease.Accident at work and occupational diseases are preventable health conditions. Reporting is mandatory.The first thing coming to mind as a result of such reporting is to acquire compensation and similarrights. Yet, the main purpose of notification of an accident at work and occupational diseases shouldbe recording and identifying which conditions cause health issues in which sectors, and planninginterventions for prevention. This review paper evaluates the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019,the identification of conditions required for occupational disease diagnosis, especially in health‑carepersonnel, the necessary procedures following diagnosis, the return to work recommendations, andthe preventive strategies especially for health‑care personnel from the view of occupational exposure.

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Vancouver	Alıcı N,Coskun Beyan A,Şimşek C COVID‑19 as an occupational disease. Eurasian Journal of Pulmonology. 2020; 22(1): 90 - 100. 10.4103/ejop.ejop_50_20
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