Il progetto MAREL: La rete di ambulatori specialistici di Mediana del Lavoro per il monitoraggio delle malattie e dei rischi emergenti sul lavoro

Occupational health surveillance is an important issue in many countries since working conditions and occupational exposures are rapidly changing. We aim to create an Italian network of occupational disease consultation centres to which patients are referred for potentially work-related diseases. The pilot network, namely MAREL (MAlattie e Rischi Emergenti sul Lavoro), will be constituted by five Italian occupational disease consultation centres. Each centre, from each patient, will collect data through a standardised form using an online database platform. The data will be coded according to national and international classifications. To detect emerging disease/occupational-exposure associations we intend to apply the proportional reporting ratio used in pharmacosurveillance and adopted by the French occupational disease surveillance system (RNV3P). The Italian network MAREL will contribute to surveillance systems (i.e. MALPROF) by the detection of new and emerging work-related diseases and occupational risks.