History of the Development of the Reporting System of Occupational Diseases and Occupational Disease List in China

Overview An occupational disease reporting system has been developed starting from a paper-based reporting system to a network-based direct reporting system.The reporting system has been linked with more than 43,300 users from 25,000 agencies at the national,provincial,municipal,and county levels in a unified vision to report individual cases of occupational diseases and chemical poisonings.Following the establishment of the reporting system of occupational diseases,the list of occupational diseases has been published since the 1950s,beginning with 14 diseases and revised by recognition and establishment of more occupational diseases in accordance with scientific advancements in medical science.The list of occupational diseases represents increasing knowledge on the development of medical sciences and disease diagnosis technologies and it plays a dual role in prevention and compensation of occupational diseases.