title: [Normogram study: representative data on the state of health of male industrial workers in northern Switzerland. 1. Report: anamnesis and health behavior].
abstract: To obtain representative data about the health of industrial workers in nothern Switzerland, 1260 men from 44 plants have been examined. At the time of our study, 21% were under treatemnt by a doctor and 52% had so been 1-3 times during the previous year. 44% hat at some time in the past been patients in a surgical department, 13% in a department for internal medicine and 29% in a department for special diseases. During the previous year 39% reported loss of working days through illness. In 13%, working days had been lost through accidents. 48% were smokers, 38% had never smoked, and 14% had stopped smoking. Alcohol was consumed daily by 37%, three times a week by 30% and once a week by 18%; 11% drank rarely and 4% never, 16% took medicines often, 40% rarely and 44% never. The results of the study are classified by 5-year-age groups and compared.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004327:Drinking Behavior; D006306:Health Surveys; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009787:Occupational Medicine; D012907:Smoking; D013177:Sports; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013557:Switzerland; D014947:Wounds and Injuries
vernacular_title: Normogrammstudie: Repräsentativerhebung über den Gesundheitszustand männlicher Betriebsangehöriger in der Nordschweiz