Education and Research in Occupational Medicine/Etiological- and Risk Assessment

Etiological- and Risk Assessment

An assessment of the multiple etiologies is defined as an assessment of whether there is a probable correlation between the exposure and the identified disease or symptoms based on exposure and diagnosis. Risk assessment assesses the likelihood that a given exposure may result in a given health injury in the short or long term, or may affect the prognosis

After completion of the specialist medical training, the specialist must be able to:

1 Know how to use the general principles
for etiological risk assessment
  1. Assess risk objectives: Relative risk, Absolute risk, aetiological fraction
  2. Explain the fundamental mechanisms of action.
  3. Interpret and summarize results of in vitro experiments, animal experiments and human data in relation to the particular one issue
  4. Apply different acceptance criteria depending on the context, eg. for the following areas:
  5. Chemical influences
  6. Physical effects
  7. Ergonomic influences
  8. Biological influences
  9. Psychological Impact
2 Chemical Etiologicals and risk assessments
  1. Explain fundamentally toxicology
3 Physical, risk assessment
  1. From naturally occurring influences, eg. background radiation
4 Ergonomic etiological and risk assessment
  1. Explain the mechanism of action, including importance of work position,speed and power consumption at movements and the significance of inactivity
5 Biological etiologies´ risk assessment
  1. Know mechanism of action incl. Infections, toxic and allergic influence
  2. Interpreting controlled biological experiments, eg. climate chamber trials
6 Psychological risk assessment
  1. Explain the importance of known risk factors and interaction with individual resources and coping strategies
7 Cross-etiological risk assessments
  1. Evaluate multiple effects of for example shift work
  2. Evaluate multiple influences, eg. In the indoor climate or in pregnant women
8 Individual vulnerability
  1. Explain Individual Vulnerability: Genetics, including atopy, age, social Inequality, inactivity
9 Risk Communication
  1. Make risk communication under different risk perceptions
10 Risk Management
  1. Be able to make a plan for concrete risk management