ABSTRACT
The method of correlating job-related stress and workers' diseases has already been familiar to epidemiological research in social medicine for many years. In particular, job-related diseases are to be distinguished from occupational diseases. In the correlation of stress and disease, the psychical stress is of particular importance as a stressor. The original stress concept according to Selye which defines stress as a physiological adaptation reaction of the organism to modified, adverse conditions is thus a partial aspect of the ergonomic concept of strain. This chapter presents a model used to describe the hypothetical relationship between stress and disease. The stress factors can be represented graphically as a profile diagram to give a quick overview of the height and duration of jobs. The connection between the stress factors and the epidemiologic data base is possible. The connections between ergonomic and epidemiologic data bases are founded upon the special number of task function and organisation units of the company division.
