Professional paper
Estimate of the quality of life of disabled industrlal workers based on the type of health care most frequently used
A. Škrobonja
; Dom zdravlja Rijeka, Hrvatska
M. Bačkov-Kolonić
; Dom zdravlja Rijeka, Hrvatska
A. Frković
; Dom zdravlja Rijeka, Hrvatska
Abstract
An investigation was conducted among the dock workers from the port of Rijeka, where disabled workers made 13.1% of the total number of the employed. The most common causes of disablernent were musculo-skeletal and connective tissue diseases (27% ), injuries (20%) and diseases of the nervous and circulatory systems (13%). Chronic diseases in these workers whose mean age was 43.8 years were twice as frequent as in other workers (mean age 39.7 years). The average working span of disabled workers was 12.2 years, compared to 8.9 years of the rest of the working population. Analysis showed that in the year after disability assessment, workers with reduced working capacity visited their physicians 2.1 and specialists 1.7 times less often than the other workers. In general, the rate of absenteeism in the year following the assessment of disability was reduced 3.5 times. Ali the differences were very significant, (P<0.01). Results lead to the conclusion that medical and social rehabilitation of disabled workers as well as their integration into the working environment were very successful, which undoubtedly had a positive impact on the quality of their life.
Keywords
quality of life; health assessment; occupational rehabilitation
Hrčak ID:
148279
URI
Publication date:
2.9.1992.
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