OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE IN SLOVENIA
HISTORY
Beginning: 18th century in mercury-mine Idrija (west Slovenia) – the medical and social care for the miners and their families was assured by world famous doctors like Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723 – 1788), Balthasar Hacquet (1739 – 1815).
During 1963 and 1967 the Dispensaries of occupational medicine were founded to take preventive and active heath care for all the workers in Slovenia.
On 9th September 1971 the Clinical Institute of Occupational Medicine in Ljubljana was founded.
POPULATION OF SLOVENIA
Total: 2 046 976
Workforce 821 965
ACTIVE PHYSICIANS IN SLOVENIA
5015 physicians
194 Specialists of occupational medicine
NATURE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES
- Private practice
- Public health care centres
PROFESSION
TRAINING
- Postgraduate training takes four years (active health care of workers, epidemiology and statistics, professional diseases, risk assesment, industrial hygienics, heath promotion)
- Continuing Medical Education is required to be licenced by the Medical Chamber of Slovenia.
TASKS
- Preventive assesments of employees as required by the legislation
- Risk assesment
- Councelling to the employers
HOT TOPICS
- Ability to work and sickness absence
- Professional diseases
- Changes of legislation
ASSOCIATION
ZDRUŽENJE MEDICINE DELA, PROMETA IN ŠPORTA
ASSOCIATION OF OCCUPATIONAL, TRAFFIC AND SPORTS MEDICINE OF SLOVENIA
Address: Dalmatinova ulica 10 SI-1000 LJUBLJANA
Website: www.zmd.si
Contact person: alenka.skerjanc@siol.com