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The mechanisms of deleterious effects of exposure to low and high frequency electromagnetic fields (electromagnetic effects) in humans, especially hypersensitivity to 50 Hz electromagnetic fields with field power under 50 V/m or 1 pT, have not yet been sicientifically clarified. In Slovenia, like in other countries, multidisciplinary research should be intensified to concentrate on the interaction between the dose (i.e. power of electromagnetic fields, depending on the frequency range and time of action) and the effect (noncummulative and cummulative) and the influence of this interaction on humans (occupational and residential environment). To be able to assess the true extent and impact of this problem in Slovenia, we need to set up a computerized national registry of occupational diseases, and diseases suspected of being occupational, based on an individual and epidemiological follow-up of the incidence and prevalence of occupational morbidity due to exposure to electromagnetic fields.