pathologie professionnelle

CONT: While many studies have analysed exposure to the different risk factors affecting the working population, only a very few have focused on workers with an occupational pathology officially recognised by the public health system ... All participants in the experimental group had been diagnosed by the public health authorities as having one of the occupational [musculoskeletal diseases] recognised by [the country's] legislation. Furthermore, all participants in the study worked in the same area of activity, i.e. were automotive assembly employees, meaning that their work conditions and exposure to risk factors were fairly similar.