Özet:

Unlike other living things, humans can continue their lives by working. After people settled down and acquired different professions, mechanization increased with the Industrial Revolution. These events led to an increase in production and people to work longer hours. Physical health, mental and social health is very important for people. Employees are exposed to multiple adverse conditions that threaten their health due to the unsafe and unhealthy conditions they encounter in their workplace. As the exposure time increases, the adverse conditions they are exposed to return to people as a disease. In the first years of industrialization, since the term occupational disease did not exist, the diseases suffered by the employees were considered in the normal disease class. However, due to the fact that physicians drew attention to the term occupational disease, measures were started to be taken. With the entry into force of the Occupational Health and Safety Law No. 6331 in 2012 in our country, the obligation to regulate the working conditions in accordance with the living conditions of the worker, regardless of the sector, has been introduced. If the criteria in the Occupational Health and Safety Law are not met, occupational accidents and occupational diseases will always continue to occur. A lot of research has been done and continues to be done on the creation of safer and healthier work environments. In this study, master's, medical specialization and doctoral theses, which were made between 1989 and 2022 and found in the database of the Higher Education Institution (HEI), were searched with the term "occupational diseases and occupational diseases". The results obtained according to these terms were analyzed with the bibliographic analysis method. During the bibliographic analysis, examinations were made on the subjects of “year and type of theses, subject of theses, university, institute, department, branch of science, number of pages, access permission to theses”. It was observed that a total of 123 theses were written between 1989 and 2022. According to the types of theses, 108 (87.8%) master's thesis, 8 (6.5%) doctoral thesis, 7 (5.7%) medical specialty thesis. 94.8% of the theses written on the subject were written in Turkish. It is seen that the theses belonging to the Institute of Social Sciences come first.

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