text: **Work-related deaths and diseases**
  
  **Work-related health outcomes represent a much higher burden**for society than work accidents. 
  More workers are affected, and the overall costs are much higher. When limiting the scope of analysis 
  to the officially**recognised occupational diseases**, the trend of health outcomes (deaths, illnesses) 
  caused by ‘exposures’ at work decreases similarly to the accident trend. 
  
  European Agency for Safety and Health at Work – EU-OSHA 
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