Scarselli Alberto, Scano Patrizia, Marinaccio Alessandro
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Prevention (ISPESL), Occupational Medicine Department, Epidemiology Unit, Rome, Italy.
Acta Biomed. 2008;79 Suppl 1:24-33.
In 2001, a comprehensive and standardised list for occupations or jobs known or suspected to be associated with lung cancer was prepared. The aim of this study was to assess the number of potentially exposed workers using this list.
A detailed and unique list of codes has been developed on the basis of the national standard classification of economic activities. The list is divided into two categories: one of occupations definitely entailing carcinogenic risk and another of those which probably/possibly entail a risk. Firms have been selected from ISPESL database of enterprises and the number of workers has been estimated on the basis of this list.
The number of potentially exposed workers in "industry and services" sector, related to lung cancer risk, is 650,886 blue-collars and the number of firms censused in Italy is 117,006 units. These figures--based on administrative sources rather than on direct measures of exposure--are likely to overestimate potential exposure to carcinogenic agents.
The list founded on a standard classification permits the creation of databases to control occupational exposure to carcinogens and to increase comparability between epidemiologic studies based on job-exposure matrices.
2001年，编制了一份已知或疑似与肺癌相关的职业或工作的全面标准化清单。本研究的目的是使用该清单评估潜在暴露工人的数量。
在国家经济活动标准分类的基础上制定了一份详细且独特的代码清单。该清单分为两类：一类是肯定存在致癌风险的职业，另一类是可能/或许存在风险的职业。从意大利国家社会保险局（ISPESL）的企业数据库中选取了企业，并根据该清单估算了工人数量。
与肺癌风险相关的“工业和服务业”部门中，潜在暴露工人数量为650,886名蓝领工人，在意大利普查的企业数量为117,006家。这些基于行政来源而非直接暴露测量的数据可能高估了致癌物质的潜在暴露量。
基于标准分类的清单有助于创建数据库，以控制职业性致癌物暴露，并提高基于工作暴露矩阵的流行病学研究之间的可比性。
