Introduction: Little is known in Peru about the extent of workers exposure to occupational hazards, and we do not have a system with consistent and regular statistical information about diseases and accidents in the working place. We present the policy followed by a private company on this issue. Objective: The objective is to determine the epidemiological profile of conditions treated at the medical office in the aforementioned brewing company during a 20/month period (November 2004 to June 2006).   Material and method: The sample included 382 workers (100% of the factory workforce) and considered variables for a descriptive and retrospective cross-sectional observational analysis, since morbidity rates were calculated according to the frequency of conditions taken care of in the office. Afterwards, results were compared with similar studies with respect to common di...

Introduction: Little is known in Peru about the extent of workers exposure to occupational hazards, and we do not have a system with consistent and regular statistical information about diseases and accidents in the working place. We present the policy followed by a private company on this issue. Objective: The objective is to determine the epidemiological profile of conditions treated at the medical office in the aforementioned brewing company during a 20/month period (November 2004 to June 2006).   Material and method: The sample included 382 workers (100% of the factory workforce) and considered variables for a descriptive and retrospective cross-sectional observational analysis, since morbidity rates were calculated according to the frequency of conditions taken care of in the office. Afterwards, results were compared with similar studies with respect to common di...

Estado de Salud basado en la Evolución Médica Pre-Ocupacional de los trabajadores fabriles de una Compañía Cervecera, en la ciudad de Lima, año 2004.