ECONOMICAL AND SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF ACCIDENTS AT WORK AND OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES

[Occupational accidents: social insurance costs and work days lost].

OBJECTIVE To estimate the proportion of occupational accident benefits granted within the total for health-related social security benefits, viewing the costs according to benefit type and the impact on productivity according to work days lost. METHODS Records of benefit decisions from the National Benefits System of the National Social Security Institute for the State of Bahia in 2000 were u...

[Social security in industrial accidents, occupational and other diseases].

postnatal studies of bats (pipistrellus kuhlii and miniopterus schreibersii) & histomorphology and histochemistry studies of organs and diseases of (neurergus microspilotus and n. kaiseri)

1. to determine whether difference in birth body mass influenced growth performance in pipistrellus kuhlii we studied a total of 12 captive-born neonates. bats were assigned to two body mass groups: light birth body mass (lbw: 0.89 ± 0.05, n=8) and heavy birth body mass (hbw: 1.35 ± 0.08, n=4). heavier body mass at birth was associated with rapid postnatal growth (body mass and forearm length) ...

Absence from work due to occupational and non-occupational accidents.

AIMS The aim of the present study was to investigate absence from work in Denmark due to occupational and non-occupational accidents. BACKGROUND Since the beginning of the last decade, political focus has been placed on the population's working capacity and the scope of absence due to illness. Absence from work is estimated at between 3% and 6% of working hours in the EU and costs are estimat...

Global trend according to estimated number of occupational accidents and fatal work-related diseases at region and country level.

BACKGROUND Although occupational accidents and work-related diseases have been of interest for a long time, due to lack of proper recording and notification systems the official numbers of occupational accidents and work-related diseases are missing for many countries. Presently, the demand for effectiveness and an interest in the economic aspects of accidents have increased prevention activiti...