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To estimate the global burden of fatal and non-fatal unintentional occupational injuries and associated disability for the year 2000.

November 18, 2005American Journal of Industrial Medicine

The global burden due to occupational injury

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MCMarisol Concha‐BarrientosHospital Luis Calvo Mackenna DNDeborah Imel NelsonUniversity of Houston - Clear Lake MFMarilyn A. FingerhutAdvanced Technologies and Laboratories International (United States)

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Global burden analysis reveals severe mortality and disability from unintentional occupational injuries in workers, highlighting the need for widespread workplace safety interventions.

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To estimate the global burden of fatal and non-fatal unintentional occupational injuries and associated disability for the year 2000.
Assessed the risk among the global economically active population of approximately 2.9 billion workers across 14 World Health Organization regions.
Derived regional fatal injury rates from country-level insured worker statistics and applied them to regional workforces to estimate deaths and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs).
Workplace hazards caused at least 312,000 fatal unintentional injuries and roughly 10.5 million DALYs, equating to 3.5 years of healthy life lost per 1,000 workers worldwide.
Occupational risk factors accounted for 8.8% of global mortality and 8.1% of total DALYs resulting from unintentional injuries.
An estimated 113,000 fatal workplace injuries were missed due to under-reporting alone, without accounting for commuting or intentional workplace injuries.

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Concha‐Barrientos et al. (2005) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1bc0291567d2fc4d5ee59f https://doi.org/10.1002/ajim.20226

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Global burden analysis reveals severe mortality and disability from unintentional occupational injuries in workers, highlighting the need for widespread workplace safety interventions.

The global burden due to occupational injury

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