THE USE OF GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM - SIGEPI FOR MONITORING OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES AND THOSE RELATED TO PROFESSION FROM ARAD COUNTY
Abstract:
Maintaining the state of health and the battle against diseases falls among the oldest human concerns. Professional pathology includes occupational diseases but also work-related diseases. “Geographic Information System- SIG is seen as a special case of general information systems. The information is derived from the data interpretation which is the symbolic representations of characteristics”. As a working hypothesis, we started from the premise that specific SIG operations, over the data space, make these systems both effective tools for the visualization of multiple data in the forms of maps, and tools for the analysis of information regarding land surface. The study material contains aspects from the information system of Arad county, which can be included into a geographic information system, so: demographic data, economic data and specialized medical cabinets. SIG applicability can be accomplished in occupational medicine, for obtaining the following functions: hierarchy of occupational problems; establishing lines of actions; policies development, strategies and programmes aiming the possible illnesses and work-related diseases; ensuring work conditions and elimination of risks; protecting the population against the risks from the workplace; monitoring professional diseases and work-related diseases; consequently improving the population’s state of health, which will be reflected in health indicators.
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