Professional paper

Disability reassessment in a sample of pensioners in SR Croatia

M. Pavlović ; Institut za medicinska istraživanja i medicinu rada, Zagreb, Hrvatska
R. Čapeta ; Zajednica mirovinskog i invalidskog osiguranja, Zagreb, Hrvatska
M. Ribarić ; Zajednica mirovinskog i invalidskog osiguranja, Zagreb, Hrvatska
P. Draganov ; Zajednica mirovinskog i invalidskog osiguranja, Zagreb, Hrvatska
B. Kanceljak ; Institut za medicinska istraživanja i medicinu rada, Zagreb, Hrvatska
L. Krapac ; Institut za medicinska istraživanja i medicinu rada, Zagreb, Hrvatska
L. Pavičević ; Institut za medicinska istraživanja i medicinu rada, Zagreb, Hrvatska
N. Čorović ; Institut za medicinska istraživanja i medicinu rada, Zagreb, Hrvatska

Abstract

A team of specialist doctors and members of the Second-Degree Disability Board reevaluated disability without residual working capacity in 1009 volunteers, 234 women and 775 men. These were randomly selected out of 10870 pensioners from a coastal and a continental region of SR Croatia and from the city of Zagreb. In view of the main diagnosis responsible for the development of disability a discrepancy was found between the criteria as applied in women and in men (p<0.001). The role of the diseases of the locomotive system was found to have been overestimated (p<0.01). A significantly high number of false assessments was also established among agricultural workers in relation to the other occupations (p<0.001). Reassessment of working capacity did not show discrepancies in the diagnoses of diseases of the intestinal, locomotive and nervous systems as made by regional disability boards. Results suggest a need for further analysis of the functional criteria for the assessment of disability and residual working capacity.

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Hrčak ID:

152790

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/152790

Publication date:

25.4.1989.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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