[Reported occupation-related complaints on Fyn. A review of notifications of the authority on occupational protection, Kreds Fyn's County 1 January 1988-31 March 1989].
In order to describe the pattern of notification of occupationally conditioned complaints including, the particular, variations in the frequencies of notifications between the general practitioners, the notifications to the Insurance Authorities in the Country af Funen during the period from January 1988-March 1989 were reviewed. A Total af 2.114 notifications were included. 53% of the notifications originated from general practice and were concerned mainly with complaints from the locomotor system. Specialists were responsible for 17% of the notifications which were primarily skin conditions. Hospital departments were responsible for 15%, primarily damage to hearing, and the clinic for Occupational Medicine was responsible for 14% of the notifications. The notifications were very unevenly distributed: Just under one fifth of the general practitioners were responsible for half of the notifications from general practice whereas one sixth of the practitioners did not make a single notification during the 15 month period. 56% of the patients desired to apply for compensation for occupational injury. These were, in particular, elderly, male patients with damaged hearing, toxic encephalopathy and neoplasms. 14% of the patients desired to remain anonymous. The frequency of notification from general practice decreased significantly during the period of registration. Where the entire material was concerned, a decrease was also concerned during the period but this was not significance at the 5% level. The decrease in the country as a whole also continued after the period of registration.
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Institut for Sygdomsforebyggelse, Odense Universitet.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003718:Denmark / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007344:Insurance Claim Reporting / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012042:Registries