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Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences

Occupational Medicine

The occupational medicine team carries out research, university teaching, and third mission activities (dissemination of knowledge in this field for the benefit of society as a whole) in all areas that have to do with the health of the population works or with pollution in the living environment.

Research areas

Public health

SPECIALIST CLINICAL ASPECTS OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE

Characterization of diseases caused by work from a diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive point of view.

 

HEALTH SURVEILLANCE

Study of the methods and techniques applicable to the health surveillance of workplace risks in order to improve their acceptability, effectiveness, efficiency and rational use of resources; health surveillance and promotion of the health of the population at work.

 

ASSESSMENT OF WORK AND ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS

Study of the methods with which to evaluate exposure to occupational and environmental risks and definition of the methods with which to control them.

Development and application of sensors from traditional and/or wearable electronics to improve safety in working and living environments.

 

 PHYSIOLOGY OF WORK 

Study of the changes induced in the organism by work activity through the (tele)detection of physiological, kinetic and postural parameters, both at rest and during various activities (simulated or real).

 

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY AND SPECTROSCOPY

Application of advanced electron microscopy techniques (SEM, TEM, Atomic Force, RX microanalysis) and IR and Raman spectroscopy to the characterization of corpuscular pollutants (inorganic, microplastics) in human and environmental matrices.

  

MASS SPECTROMETRY

Application of advanced mass spectrometry techniques (Gas-mass, Liquid-mass, ICP-mass) to the characterization of soluble pollutants (metals, organic molecules, etc.) in human and environmental matrices.

 

OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Study of the prevalence, incidence and determinants of work-related and environmental pathologies, with particular reference to oncological and musculoskeletal ones.

 

 

RESPONSIBLE

TEAM

RESEARCH LABORATORIES

Work physiology laboratory

Electron microscopy and spectroscopy laboratory

Mass spectrometry laboratory

Statistics and epidemiology laboratory