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Burden of occupational disease estimation contributes to understanding of both magnitude and relative importance of different occupational hazards and provides essential information for targeting risk reduction. This review summarises recent key ...
Four major global factors that the survey indicated will influence the practices of occupational health and safety are: the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainability Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); the Revised GRI 403: Occupational Health and Safety Global Reporting Initiative; the ISO 45001 International Occupational Health ...
Sep 27, 2024 · The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) estimate that 1.9 million people died from occupational risk factors globally in the year 2016. 1,2. Of these work-related deaths, diseases accounted for 81%, while injuries comprised 19%.
- The WHO/ILO Joint Estimates are the official estimates of WHO and ILO on the burden of disease attributable to occupational risk factors. 1,2 They...
- The occupational risk factor with the largest number of attributable deaths is exposure to long working hours (≥ 55 hours per week); it was respons...
- Worldwide in 2016, the health outcome with the largest work-related burden of deaths was chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (450 000 deaths), fo...
- On average across the globe, 34.3 deaths occurred per 100 000 working-age population (i.e. age ≥ 15 years) in 2016. The Region of South-East Asia a...
- Men carry a larger work-related burden of disease than women. Compared to the death rate for both sexes (34.3 deaths per 100 000 working-age popula...
- The death rates for people aged 55 years and over were higher than the rate for all age groups (34.3 deaths per 100 000 working-age population). Th...
- Governments, in consultation with workers and employers, can act to prevent work-related burden of disease. 4 Governments need to ensure universal...
- The global Comparative Risk Assessment (CRA) and its framework were developed by WHO with partners in the 1990s. 10 It quantifies burden of disease...
We identified systematic reviews on the prevention of occupational injuries, musculoskeletal, skin and lung diseases, occupational hearing impairment and interventions without specific target diseases.
- Birgit Teufer, Agnes Ebenberger, Lisa Affengruber, Christina Kien, Irma Klerings, Monika Szelag, Lud...
- 2019
Oct 27, 2017 · Although virtually every job entails some risk for injury, the magnitude of risk varies widely across jobs, sectors, geographic regions, and individuals. Occupational injury rates have been rising in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), but declining in high-income countries (HICs), although the effect of globalization has been mixed.
- Safa Abdalla, Spenser S. Apramian, Linda F. Cantley, Mark R. Cullen
- 2017
Oct 27, 2017 · Injuries and Occupational Hazards. Economic analyses on injury prevention suggest that interventions to prevent RTIs, drowning, and interpersonal violence are cost-effective and may even be cost saving . A quasi-experimental study by Bishai and others assessed a traffic enforcement program in Uganda.
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Sep 13, 2018 · The framework covers both natural and man-made hazards referring to the implementation of an all-hazards approach to managing disaster risk arising from environmental, technological and biological hazards and risks.
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