Differences in scores between local health units and universities (1–27 topics)
| Macro sector | Topic identified | Rank | Mean score | Mean score in local health units | Mean score in university | Significance of differences between mean score in local health units and university (*95% CI and**99% CI) |
| D | Occupational carcinogenesis | 1 | 4.32 | 4.33 | 4.31 | |
| E | Quality in occupational medicine | 2 | 4.15 | 4.41 | 3.88 | **(Local health units> university) |
| D | Exposure to low doses and multiple exposure | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3.99 | |
| E | Worker information, education, and participation | 4 | 3.89 | 4.04 | 3.73 | *(Local health units> university) |
| E | Organisation, strategies, and optimisation of prevention and safety services at the workplace | 5 | 3.87 | 4.38 | 3.34 | **(Local health units> university) |
| E | Biological monitoring: identification of markers for low dose exposure | 6 | 3.83 | 3.72 | 3.94 | |
| A | New work related diseases | 7 | 3.77 | 3.75 | 3.79 | |
| E | Medical surveillance and work ability criteria | 7 | 3.77 | 3.87 | 3.67 | |
| A | Work accidents | 9 | 3.75 | 3.99 | 3.5 | **(Local health units> university) |
| B | Electromagnetic fields | 10 | 3.69 | 3.68 | 3.71 | |
| E | Work organisation and new types of work | 11 | 3.66 | 3.73 | 3.59 | |
| A | Musculoskeletal and repetitive trauma disorders | 12 | 3.64 | 3.78 | 3.5 | *(Local health units> university) |
| C | Healthcare and hospital sector | 13 | 3.61 | 3.52 | 3.7 | |
| B | Asbestos substitute fibres | 14 | 3.55 | 3.51 | 3.6 | |
| D | Individual susceptibility and development of susceptibility indicators | 15 | 3.53 | 3.23 | 3.84 | **(Local health units< university) |
| A | Occupational allergies | 16 | 3.46 | 3.42 | 3.5 | |
| B | Biological agents | 17 | 3.44 | 3.46 | 3.41 | |
| A | Occupational asthma and respiratory diseases | 18 | 3.43 | 3.28 | 3.57 | *(Local health units< university) |
| C | Agriculture | 19 | 3.38 | 3.45 | 3.3 | |
| B | Load handling | 20 | 3.36 | 3.53 | 3.19 | *(Local health units> university) |
| C | Special populations at risk (elderly, minor, and disabled people) | 21 | 3.33 | 3.42 | 3.24 | |
| B | Occupational exposure to urban chemical pollutants | 22 | 3.32 | 3.12 | 3.53 | *(Local health units< university) |
| D | Mechanisms of action of occupational stress and occurrence of diseases | 22 | 3.32 | 3.3 | 3.33 | |
| A | Reproductive and pregnancy disorders | 24 | 3.31 | 3.39 | 3.22 | |
| E | Methods of assessing and measuring occupational stress | 25 | 3.29 | 3.28 | 3.29 | |
| C | Air quality and indoor environments | 26 | 3.14 | 2.94 | 3.34 | *(Local health units< university) |
| D | Mechanisms of skin absorption of xenobiotics | 27 | 2.93 | 2.81 | 3.04 |