A combined Survey of Chronic Disability in Industrial Employees

Taylor, Peter; Barrett, J; Fletcher, Gordon; Morgan, Lon; Robertson, Fred J.; Trevethick, R. A.; Tyrer, F.H.; Gardner, Andrew W.

doi:10.1093/occmed/20.3.98

Occup Med

1970

DOI: 10.1093/occmed/20.3.98

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A combined Survey of Chronic Disability in Industrial Employees

Peter Taylor¹,

J Barrett²,

Gordon Fletcher³

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Abstract: Little is known about the numbers of disabled people employed in industry except for those registered with the Department of Employment and Productivity. A joint survey by six factory doctors covering 11,399 men aged 16 to 64 in seven companies is described. 1,233 men (10.8 per cent of the population) were identified as having chronic medical impairments which could affect working capacity. The prevalence rose from 3 per cent under the age of 25 to 28 per cent over the age of 60. Only one third of these men we… Show more

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Trends in death, disablement, and sickness absence in the British Post Office since 1981.

Taylor¹,

Burridge²

1982

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

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The Post Office occupational health service was established in 1855. Unique epidemiological records of sickness absence, medical retirements, and deaths for 90 years have been extracted from annual reports. The stability of the death rate is striking, but the male sickness absence series is consistent with three periods of roughly constant rates, viz 7-6, 10-0, and 13-1 calendar days a year with increases in level coinciding with the two world wars. By contrast with general experience, Post Office absence has not shown a rising trend in the past 30 years. An examination of the relation between medical retirement and sickness absence rates shows that a strongly negative correlation has reversed to a strongly positive one since the second world war. The major changes in diagnostic causes of absence, retirements, and deaths are described.

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Trends in death, disablement, and sickness absence in the British Post Office since 1981.

Taylor¹,

Burridge²

1982

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

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Disability and diabetes

Robinson

1990

International Disability Studies

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Little work has been carried out on diabetes and disability. A questionnaire survey on the employment of people with diabetes aged 17-65 years was carried out in the UK. Data were also collected from a questionnaire sent to a random sample of employers. A comparison between those diabetic patients registered as disabled and those not so registered showed that men were more likely to be registered than women. The disabled group were also older, lower down the social scale, more likely to rent their house, to have left school before the age of 17 years, and to live in the north of the country. Significantly fewer disabled patients were currently working compared with those not registered as disabled (30% versus 65%, p less than 0.0001). Registered disabled patients who were working were no more likely to report having more than 20 days off sick in the last year compared with those patients not registered as disabled (7% versus 9%). Employers did not report adverse sickness absence rates for their registered disabled diabetic patients. People with diabetes who are registered as disabled can make good employees in a range of different occupations. Registering as disabled may improve employment opportunities for people with diabetes who are finding difficulty in obtaining suitable employment.

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A combined Survey of Chronic Disability in Industrial Employees

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Trends in death, disablement, and sickness absence in the British Post Office since 1981.

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