Area-Based Occupational Disease Surveillance in Incheon, Korea: Results of an 11-year Data Survey.
- Author:
Jeong Hoon KIM
1
;
Shin Goo PARK
;
Jong Han LEEM
;
Jong Uk WON
;
Sang Hwan HAN
;
Soo Young CHUNG
;
Sang Hoon KIM
;
Hwan Cheol KIM
;
Yun Chul HONG
;
Cheol Woo KIM
;
Chang Hwan KIM
;
Dong Hyun KIM
;
Dong Hoon LEE
;
Seung Jun LEE
;
Young Joong KANG
;
Woo Seok KWAK
;
Jeongbae RHIE
Author Information
1. Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Inha University Hospital, Korea. oem@inha.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Occupational disease;
Surveillance;
Incheon
- MeSH:
Asthma, Occupational;
Commerce;
Drug-Induced Liver Injury;
Information Services;
Korea;
Neurons;
Occupational Diseases;
Pneumoconiosis;
Skin Diseases;
Workers' Compensation
- From:Korean Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
2010;22(3):183-199
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
OBJECTIVES: Between Jan 1998 and Dec 2008, area-based occupational disease surveillance in Incheon was used to collect data on occupational diseases. The long-term data was used to estimate the scale of disease, to analyze disease characteristics, and to achieve surveillance in order to determine development tasks. METHODS: For a period of 11 years, occupation-related disease surveillance was performed on an annual basis for employees of Incheon industries. All cases of occupational disease were reported by means of the Incheon Occupational Disease Information Network (IODIN) web site, downloaded, and analyzed, subsequently. RESULTS: Between Jan 1998 and Dec 2008, 1577 cases of occupational disease were reported. Of these, there were 1043(66.1%) cases of occupational musculoskeletal disorders, 172(10.9%) cases of occupational asthma, 162(10.3%) cases of occupational dermatoses, 135(8.6%) cases of occupationally-related cancers, 30(1.9%) cases of pneumoconiosis, 27(1.7%) cases of toxic hepatitis, and 8(0.5%) cases of occupational neuronal disease. CONCLUSION: In the Incheon area, small and medium industries comprise 99% of business. The composition of the industry by category, in Incheon, is similar to the country on the whole. In actually, the data on occupational diseases in Korea are almost workers' compensation data. Thus, the survey of occupational disease based in Incheon, Korea, can serve as an estimate of the trends and size of the occupational disease throughout the entire country.
