text: Eurostat’s new experimental European Occupational Diseases Statistics (EODS) indicates a**decrease**
  **in some of the major recognised diseases**due to technical preventive measures and to a shift of the 
  workforce to sectors with less ‘classical’ exposures and related recognised occupational diseases. 
  
  EU-OSHA has been engaged in several research efforts to estimate the burden of work-related 
  diseases, including their economic impact (this work is being continued by ICOH). The impact of the two 
  major health consequences (‘Outcomes’) was calculated, that is,**work-related deaths**and**work-**
  **related diseases**, measured in DALYs (lost life years due to disability, or in other words:**one DALY is**
  **one lost year of healthy life**). 
  
  **This report presents two estimates, one from WHO/ILO and one from ICOH.**In 2021, the WHO and 
  ILO jointly published estimates of the burden of work-related diseases for the period 2000-2016. The 
  WHO/ILO calculate for the EU27 114,000**work-related deaths in 2016**. When setting the**absolute**
  **number of work-related deaths**(114,000) in relation to the EU27 population above 16 years (371 
  million), this gives a result of approximately**31 deaths per 100,000 population of working age above**
  **age 16**. 