[Some current questions concerning occupational diseases in Hungary]

The author reviews the management of the professional diseases in Hungary from the beginning till now. It can be stated that the number of the registered professional diseases in Hungary has decreasing steadily. He thinks that this tendency can be explained not only by the improvement of the labour higienic conditions and systematic screening tests with biologic monitoring but also by the increase of unemployment and the threatening of the latter of the workers as well as the lack of the discipline of the registration. The change of the economical structure resulted in the change of the problems concerning the professional diseases too. The liquidation of the old large factories and the development of many small economic plants represents a big problem of the labour hygienic control of the latters and make difficult the prophylactic examinations of all employees. This is a factor counteracting the further decrease of number of professional diseases. The change of the spectrum of the professional diseases is to be expected too. The criteria of the diagnosing, the therapy and the prognosis of the professional diseases are described. The most effective method of the medical prevention of the professional diseases in the precise fulfillment of the prophylactic medical examinations.