ABSTRACT
The concept of occupational disease is a legal concept created for compensatory (not preventive) purposes, given its definition to legal and nonmedical criteria (Eurogip, 2015). The compensation system for occupational diseases therefore reflects a social and political commitment (Eurogip, 2015), since the recognition of such diseases has legal and financial implications which may vary depending on the country (ILO, 2013). The systems for the recognition of occupational diseases are treated as a set of filters of different natures: conceptual-reffering to the definition of a causal relation between work and the pathology itself-intitutional, legal, social and cultural filters, and the combined effect of these filters exceeds what could be explored by a quantitative aproach (Vogel, 2014), emphasizing the need to combine statistical analysis with a qualitative approach.
