Occupational Infectious Diseases among Korean Health Care Workers Compensated with Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance from 1998 to 2004

Ahn, Yeon-Soon; Lim, Hyun-Sul

doi:10.2486/indhealth.46.448

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“…They were mostly tsutsugamushi disease which occurred among public service laborers who performed landscape gardening (56). Tuberculosis is a common infectious disease among health care workers (57, 58). Seroconverted viral hepatitis after needle stick injury among health care workers is generally accepted as occupational disease although their seroprevalence rates were not different from those of the general population (59).…”

Section: Occupational Diseases In Koreamentioning

confidence: 99%

Occupational Diseases in Korea

Kang

Kim

2010

J Korean Med Sci

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Korea has industrialized since the 1970s. Pneumoconiosis in coal miners was the most common occupational disease in the 1970s to 1980s. With the industrialization, the use of many chemicals have increased since the 1970s. As a consequence, there were outbreaks of occupational diseases caused by poisonous chemicals, such as heavy metal poisoning, solvent poisoning and occupational asthma in the late 1980s and early 1990s with civil movement for democracy. Many actions have been taken for prevention by the government, employers and employees or unions. In the 1990s most chemical related diseases and pneumoconiosis have rapidly decreased due to improving work environment. In the late 1990s, cerebro-cardiovascular diseases related to job stress or work overloads have abruptly increased especially after the economic crisis in 1998. After the year 2000, musculoskeletal disorders became a major problem especially in assembly lines in the manufacturing industry and they were expanded to the service industry. Mental diseases related to job stress have increased. Infectious diseases increased in health care workers and afforestation workers. Occupational cancers are increasing because of their long latency, although the use of carcinogenic substances are reduced, limited, and even banned.

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Section: Occupational Diseases In Koreamentioning

confidence: 99%

Occupational Diseases in Korea

Kang

Kim

2010

J Korean Med Sci

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“…Korea runs a workers' compensation insurance scheme 18) , which provides occupationally injured workers with all of the applicable treatments 19 ) . Therefore, health equity should be ensured for the occupational victims regardless of the SES.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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The association between subjective socioeconomic status and health inequity in victims of occupational accidents in Korea

Seok

Yoon

Roh

et al. 2017

Journal of Occupational Health

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Objectives: We aimed to investigate the health inequity of victims of occupational accidents through the association between socioeconomic status and unmet healthcare need.Methods: Data from the first and second Panel Study of Workers' Compensation Insurance were used, which included 1,803 participants. The odds ratio and 95% confidence intervals for the unmet healthcare needs of participants with a lower socioeconomic status and other socioeconomic statuses were investigated using multivariate regression analysis.Results: Among all participants, 103 had unmet healthcare needs, whereas 1,700 did not. After adjusting for sex, age, smoking, alcohol, chronic disease, recuperation duration, accident type, disability, and economic participation, the odds ratio of unmet healthcare needs in participants with a lower socioeconomic status was 2.04 (95% confidence interval 1.32-3.15) compared to participants with other socioeconomic statuses.Conclusions: The victims of occupational accidents who have a lower socioeconomic status are more likely to have unmet healthcare needs in comparison to those with other socioeconomic statuses.

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“…Comparable findings were found in a study done for assessing occupational infectious diseases among Korean healthcare workers, found that the tuberculosis and hepatitis were the most common infections and that it was more among female workers and more so in the younger age group. [18] Large proportion of the workers in the Microbiology Department had suffered from infectious diseases in our study. This may be because of the contact with infectious materials and contaminated equipment.…”

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confidence: 69%