[Certain methodological problems concerning the study of occupational morbidity and morbidity related to work]

Research on occupational and occupationally-related morbidity is essential for setting up a system of measures designed to promote health and well-being in industrial workers. The right conclusions can only be drawn and the adequate decisions made after data on occupational and occupationally-related diseases have been accurately stored, processed, interpreted and evaluated. Starting from the vast amount of information collected in some branches of national economy and yielded by routine statistic procedures, the author attempts to assess systems of storage and retrieval currently used for decision-oriented data. It is suggested that essential changes could be effected in today's system for analysing data on occupational and occupationally-related diseases on the basis of decentralized evidence.