In recent years in Italy there has been a profound cultural revolution that, has enabled the understanding of the main European guidelines on the subject of worker protection. The National Health Plan 2006-2008 recognized some diseases resulting from psychosocial risks related to work organization. All this is taken up in Article 28, where it is indicated that the subject of risk assessment must also include those related to work stress. This fits into the context of a person’s life as one of the mismanaged work issues where elements of organizational constrictiveness or dysfunction in work organization prevail.
Such surveys aim to delineate the psychosocial risk present in a given work environment. It is not easy to identify stress, nor to establish the validity of the tools and methodologies adopted for this purpose, but it is possible to establish strategies that proceed gradually until the individual is analyzed. In group 7 of mental and psychosomatic illnesses, the disorders identified as occupational diseases are chronic adjustment disorder and chronic post-traumatic stress disorder. anxiety and depression represent the main work-related stress mental disorders and give rise to highly variable clinical pictures of predominantly somatic expression, such as gastritis, irritable bowel syndrome, headache and other somatizations.
Source: I don’t have time for… How it wears out care: health workers under stress by Ferdinando Pellegrino
