Workplace exposures and employment patterns in adult onset asthmatics and diabetics

Turner, Susan; Cherry, Nicola; Robinson, J. W.

doi:10.1093/occmed/kqi055

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“…The progression of work limitations to permanent work disability can be devastating for individuals of employment age with diabetes. Studies including individuals of working age have determined that those with diabetes are more likely to be unemployed and 50% of workers age 21 to 64 years who reported diabetes as a cause of activity limitations were also unemployed (Brown, Pagan, & Bastida, 2005;CDC, 2011;Turner, Cherry, & Robinson, 2005;VonKorff et al, 2005). When employees with diabetes are working, their mean earnings are approximately 29% less than those of employees with no disabilities (U.S. Census Bureau, 2002).…”

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Work Limitations and Their Relationship to Morbidity Burden among Academic Health Center Employees with Diabetes

Sylvia¹,

Weiner

Nolan³

et al. 2012

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The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of work limitations and their relationship to morbidity burden among academic health center employees with diabetes. Employees with diabetes were surveyed via Internet and mail using the Work Limitations Questionnaire. Morbidity burden was measured using the Adjusted Clinical Groups methodology. Seventy-two percent of the employees with diabetes had a work limitation. Adjusted odds ratios for overall, physical, time, and output limitations were 1.81, 2.27, 2.13, and 2.14, respectively. Morbidity burden level is an indicator of work limitations in employees with diabetes and can be used to identify employees who may benefit from specialized services aimed at addressing their work limitations associated with diabetes.

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Work Limitations and Their Relationship to Morbidity Burden among Academic Health Center Employees with Diabetes

Sylvia¹,

Weiner

Nolan³

et al. 2012

Workplace Health Saf

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“…Research has shown that adults with diabetes are less likely to be employed and more likely to miss work, 57, 97-99, 201, 224-226 particularly if they have complications from diabetes. 94,100,101,[227][228][229] This may be due to diabetes being a health condition unlike many others that requires self-management in order to improve disease prognosis, reduce the risk of complications, and increase overall quality of life. 230 Individuals with diabetes usually need to follow strict dietary regimens as well as medication regimens that require medication (such as insulin injections) to be followed in a scheduled manner.…”

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Glycemic Control: Risk Factors, Quality of Life, Workforce Participation, and Mortality Among US Adults with Type 2 Diabetes

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The Healthy Worker Effect in Asthma

Moual

Kauffmann²,

Eisen³

et al. 2008

Am J Respir Crit Care Med

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Despite the increasing attention to the relationship between asthma and work exposures, occupational asthma remains underrecognized and its population burden underestimated. This may be due, in part, to the fact that traditional approaches to studying asthma in populations cannot adequately take into account the healthy worker effect (HWE). The HWE is the potential bias caused by the phenomenon that sicker individuals may choose work environments in which exposures are low; they may be excluded from being hired; or once hired, they may seek transfer to less exposed jobs or leave work. This article demonstrates that population- and workplace-based asthma studies are particularly subject to HWE bias, which leads to underestimates of relative risks. Our objective is to describe the HWE as it relates to asthma research, and to discuss the significance of taking HWE bias into account in designing and interpreting asthma studies. We also discuss the importance of understanding HWE bias for public health practitioners and for clinicians. Finally, we emphasize the timeliness of this review in light of the many longitudinal "child to young adult" asthma cohort studies currently underway. These prospective studies will soon provide an ideal opportunity to examine the impact of early workplace environments on asthma in young adults. We urge occupational and childhood asthma epidemiologists collaborate to ensure that this opportunity is not lost.

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Workplace exposures and employment patterns in adult onset asthmatics and diabetics

Abstract: No evidence was found that changing jobs was used as a strategy to find more tolerable working conditions. The high proportion of unemployment due to ill-health among adult onset asthmatics deserves further investigation.

Cited by 5 publications

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Work Limitations and Their Relationship to Morbidity Burden among Academic Health Center Employees with Diabetes

Work Limitations and Their Relationship to Morbidity Burden among Academic Health Center Employees with Diabetes

Glycemic Control: Risk Factors, Quality of Life, Workforce Participation, and Mortality Among US Adults with Type 2 Diabetes

The Healthy Worker Effect in Asthma

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