OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE IN SLOVAKIA
HISTORY
- 1932 – first outdoor patient department and few years later clinical department in Prague, Czechoslovakia – prof. Dr. J. Teisinger
- 1949 outdoor patient department and clinical department in Bratislava – prof. Dr. M.Nosáľ
- 1951 – outdoor patient department in Martin, 1956 – clinical department in Martin – Dr. B.Geryk
- 1952 – outdoor patient department in Košice, 1960 – clinical department in Košice – assoc. Prof. Dr. B.Gomboš
- 1953 – Research Institute of Occupational Hygiene and Occupational Diseses in Bratislava – Dr. I Klucik
ORGANISATION
POPULATION OF SLOVAKIA
Total: 5 412 254
Active: 2 056 656
ACTIVE PHYSICIANS IN SLOVAKIA
All: 20578 Specialists of occupational medicine: 127
NATURE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES
Non governmental health facilities
Private practice
Public health centres (advice and state health inspection)
PROFESSION
TRAINING
Postgraduate training for a doctors is possible in 4 specialization/subspecialization:
- Occupational Medicine (specialization – 4 years study) after basic specialization in Internal medicine, or GP, or Hygiene and Epidemiology subspecializations:
- Clinical Occupational Medicine and Clinical Toxicology (subspecialization – 3 years study)
- Preventive Occupational Medicine and Toxicology (subspecialization – 3 years study)
- Occupational Health Services (subspecialization – 2 years study)
Continuing Medical Education is required to be licensed by the Slovak Medical Chamber.
HOT TOPICS
Occupational health-prevention of professional and work related diseases, health promotion
Professional diseases
- One time compensation: awarding points scale depends up to disease (240 – 8000 points)
- 1point = 2% of average earns in Slovakia (2010: 1p.=14,89€)
- plus monthly accident pension
Occupational Health Services
- changes of legislation
- tasks in team of OHS
TASKS
- Occupational health risk assessment
- Preventive examinations of employees – evaluation of work ability
- Advising to employers and emploees
- Health education
- Evaluation of health status of emploees in relation to the changing work conditions
- Diagnostics ,notification and prophylaxis of occupational diseses
ASSOCIATION
Slovenská spolocnos‘ pracovného lekárstva SLS – SLOVAK ASSOCIATION OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE
Address:
Rastislavova str. 43
04190 Košice
Slovakia
Contact person: marek.varga@upjs.sk