Medicina del Lavoro. Appunti dalle lezioni.

[Autom. eng. transl.] Italy is the second economy of the European Community, after Germany and before France, and one of the largest in the world. It has the pride of having given birth to the scientist who gave rise to occupational medicine, as well as to have the largest number of labor protection laws (about a thousand, considering only the national ones) and to have been the first country in the world to make the prevention of risks in the workplace and the protection of these risks mandatory. Nevertheless, in our country the teaching of occupational medicine occupies a relatively very modest space in the training curriculum of the doctor and that of graduates in other health professions. There are certainly few students of the degree course in medicine and surgery who find the time to consult a Treaty of Occupational Medicine. This brochure has neither the purpose nor the purpose of replacing a training manual. It simply has the purpose of lightening the students from the effort of taking notes during the lessons or, as happens today more and more often, to photograph presentations projected in the classroom with the smartphone. Moreover, it can provide a series of schemes that can facilitate the systematization of the essential elements of occupational medicine by the students, after they have appropriately studied them. For this reason, the style is deliberately synthetic. It is hoped that the students will find in these brief indications the incentive to proceed to the due deepening of topics that, although schematized, are actually very complex.