Occupational diseases reported in the Czech Republic in 2021

Summary

A total of 6,043 cases of occupation-related diseases in 5,890 persons (4,641 women and 1,249 men) were reported in the Czech Republic in 2021. Of these, 5,991 were occupational diseases and 52 cases were given the status of “endangerment by an occupational disease”. The incidence of occupational diseases was 128.9 cases per 100,000 health-insured employees in the public sector. Most of the occupational diseases occurred in the Moravian-Silesian region (1,216 cases, i.e., 20.1%) and Olomouc region (1,053 cases, i.e., 17.4%). Most of the recognized cases occurred in the economic sector Q “Health and Social Care” (CZ-NACE Q86-88 – a total of 5,402 cases, i.e., 89.4%). COVID-19 (5,369 cases, i.e., 89.6%) was the most frequently reported occupational disease. Because of the long latency between the disease and the acknowledgment of an occupational disease, most of those cases occurred in 2020, while most cases of 2021 will appear in the statistics in 2022. The carpal tunnel syndrome predominated among the cases reported as “endangerment by an occupational disease” (40 cases, i.e., 76.9%).

Keywords:

incidence – endangerment by occupational disease – trends in occupational diseases – occupational diseases