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Disability-Adjusted Life Years in Occupational Injuries and Accidents

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Handbook of Disease Burdens and Quality of Life Measures

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Abstract:

This paper provides estimates of Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) in occupational injuries and occupational accidents. After a careful search, only four studies were found. The numbers presented should not be compared due to substantially different methods. However, some insight about the limitations of the calculation and characteristics of the burden should be drawn. First, the magnitude is usually underestimated due to the lack of mortality data. Second, males are the largest contributors accounting for at least four-fifths of the burden. Third, falls and road traffic injuries are the leading causes in both sexes. Fourth, despite data restrictions, developing countries have the biggest share of the burden of occupational injuries.

Disability-adjusted life years, give a unique perspective on workers health. This frequently used and promoted metric should be a tool to obtain not only the attention of policy makers about the importance of injuries in the workplace, but also as a resource to decrease this preventable burden.

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Abbreviations

ACHS:

Asociación Chilena de Seguridad

AF:

attributable fraction, BIREME, Centro Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Información en Ciencias de la Salud

BoD:

burden of disease

DALY:

disability-adjusted life years

EAP:

economically active population

GBD:

global burden of disease

ICD:

international classification of diseases

ILO:

International Labor Organization

MEDLINE:

biomedical database

RTI:

road traffic injuries

WHO:

World Health Organization

YLD:

years lived with disability

YLL:

years of life lost

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  1. Health Department, Asociación Chilena de Seguridad, Santiago, Chile

    M. Concha-Barrientos & J. Labbé Cid

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  1. Dept. Nutrition and Dietetics Nutritional Sciences Research Division School of Biomedical & Health Sciences, King's College London, Franklin‐Wilkins Building 150 Stamford Street, SE1 9NH, London, UK

    Victor R. Preedy (Prof.) (Prof.)

  2. Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Health Science Center 1295 N. Martin, P.O. Box 245155, 85724-5155, Tucson, AZ

    Ronald R. Watson (Prof.) (Prof.)

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Concha-Barrientos, M., Labbé Cid, J. (2010). Disability-Adjusted Life Years in Occupational Injuries and Accidents. In: Preedy, V.R., Watson, R.R. (eds) Handbook of Disease Burdens and Quality of Life Measures. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78665-0_26

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