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The health of young US workers
Ocasio MA , Fleming LE , Hollenbeck J , Fernandez CA , LeBlanc WG , Lin J , Caban Martinez AJ , Kachan D , Christ SL , Sestito JP , Lee DJ . J Occup Environ Med 2014 56 (10) 1011-8 OBJECTIVES: To provide an overview of the health status of young US workers across four domains: functional health, physical and psychological health, health behavior, and health care utilization. METHODS: Pooled data from the 2004 to 2010 National Health Interview Survey were analyzed for 11,279 US workers aged 18 to 24 years, representing an estimated 16.9 million workers annually. Thirty-nine health indicators were examined and compared across nine occupational groups. RESULTS: Compared with other occupational groups, craft workers and laborers and helpers had the highest prevalence of risky health behaviors, including current smoking and risky drinking, as well as fewer reported visits to a primary care physician in the past year. CONCLUSIONS: Young workers engage in risky health behaviors, and may benefit from targeted workplace interventions to mitigate the potentially negative long-term effects on health and well-being. |
Prevalence of work-related dermatitis in the working population: authors' response to letter from Rosenman and Fussman
Luckhaupt SE , Sussell AL , Sweeney MH , Sestito JP , Calvert GM . Am J Ind Med 2014 57 (1) 127-8 As in the recent commentary by Halperin [2013], the letter from Rosenman and Fussman [] acknowledges that the inclusion of questions about the work-relatedness of common health conditions, including dermatitis, in the 2010 National Health Interview Survey Occupational Health Supplement (NHIS-OHS) [Luckhaupt et al., 2013] advanced knowledge on the magnitude of occupational injury and illness in the United States. Collecting data about work-related injuries and illnesses directly from workers through population-based surveys such as the NHIS bypasses some of the barriers to employer reporting of work-related conditions as found in the Survey of Occupational Illnesses and Injuries conducted by the US Department of Labor [Azaroff et al., 2002]. But, as Rosenman and Fussman point out, the estimates produced from the questions included in the 2010 NHIS-OHS, which are based on respondents having been told by a healthcare professional (HCP) that their condition was work-related, still likely underestimate the true magnitude of work-related health conditions. Barriers also exist that prevent many work-related conditions from being recognized by healthcare providers. One way of capturing data on likely work-related cases of dermatitis and other conditions is to directly ask workers for their opinions as to the work-relatedness of their condition. Although some survey questions that address worker perceptions of the work-relatedness of their conditions have been used by three states in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), the specific questions varied by year and none of them were validated. | Rosenman and Fussman cited two studies that were based on BRFSS data from these three states. These two studies illustrate different ways to ask workers about their perceptions of the work-relatedness of health conditions [Stanbury et al., 2008; Lutzker et al., 2010]. |
Examining national trends in worker health with the National Health Interview Survey
Luckhaupt SE , Sestito JP . J Occup Environ Med 2013 55 S58-62 OBJECTIVE: To describe data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), both the annual core survey and periodic occupational health supplements (OHSs), available for examining national trends in worker health. METHODS: The NHIS is an annual in-person household survey with a cross-sectional multistage clustered sample design to produce nationally representative health data. The 2010 NHIS included an OHS. RESULTS: Prevalence rates of various health conditions and health behaviors among workers based on multiple years of NHIS core data are available. In addition, the 2010 NHIS-OHS data provide prevalence rates of selected health conditions, work organization factors, and occupational exposures among US workers by industry and occupation. CONCLUSIONS: The publicly available NHIS data can be used to identify areas of concern for various industries and for benchmarking data from specific worker groups against national averages. |
Prevalence of dermatitis in the working population, United States, 2010 National Health Interview Survey
Luckhaupt SE , Dahlhamer JM , Ward BW , Sussell AL , Sweeney MH , Sestito JP , Calvert GM . Am J Ind Med 2012 56 (6) 625-34 BACKGROUND: Prevalence patterns of dermatitis among workers offer clues about risk factors and targets for prevention, but population-based estimates of the burden of dermatitis among US workers are lacking. METHODS: Data from an occupational health supplement to the 2010 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS-OHS) were used to estimate the prevalence of dermatitis overall and by demographic characteristics and industry and occupation (I&O) of current/recent employment. RESULTS: Data were available for 27,157 adults, including 17,524 current/recent workers. The overall prevalence rate of dermatitis among current/recent workers was 9.8% (range among I&O groups: 5.5-15.4%), representing approximately 15.2 million workers with dermatitis. The highest prevalence rates were among I&O groups related to health care. Overall, 5.6% of dermatitis cases among workers (9.2% among healthcare workers) were attributed to work by health professionals. CONCLUSIONS: Dermatitis affected over 15 million US workers in 2010, and its prevalence varied by demographic characteristics and industry and occupation of employment. The prevalence rate of work-related dermatitis based on the NHIS-OHS was approximately 100-fold higher than incidence rates based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Survey of Occupational Illness and Injury. (Am. J. Ind. Med. Published 2012. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA.) |
Prevalence and work-relatedness of carpal tunnel syndrome in the working population, United States, 2010 National Health Interview Survey
Luckhaupt SE , Dahlhamer JM , Ward BW , Sweeney MH , Sestito JP , Calvert GM . Am J Ind Med 2012 56 (6) 615-24 BACKGROUND: Patterns of prevalence and work-relatedness of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) among workers offer clues about risk factors and targets for prevention. METHODS: Data from an occupational health supplement to the 2010 National Health Interview Survey were used to estimate the prevalence of self-reported clinician-diagnosed CTS overall and by demographic characteristics. The proportion of these cases self-reported to have been attributed to work by clinicians was also examined overall and by demographic characteristics. In addition, the distribution of industry and occupation (I&O) categories to which work-related cases of CTS were attributed was compared to the distribution of I&O categories of employment among current/recent workers. RESULTS: Data were available for 27,157 adults, including 17,524 current/recent workers. The overall lifetime prevalence of clinician-diagnosed CTS among current/recent workers was 6.7%. The 12-month prevalence was 3.1%, representing approximately 4.8 million workers with current CTS; 67.1% of these cases were attributed to work by clinicians, with overrepresentation of certain I&O categories. CONCLUSIONS: CTS affected almost 5 million U.S. workers in 2010, with prevalence varying by demographic characteristics and I&O. (Am. J. Ind. Med. (c) 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.) |
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