[Foreign laborers in Germany--an evaluation of occupational health screening of foreign laborers for determining health disorders].
The following article reports on an analysis of 257,064 medical examination data provided by the German Industrial Engineering and Traffic Safety Control organization, a service of industrial medicine. In addition to the occurrence of diseases (ICD-classification), correlations between the age, sex, nationality and occupations (ILO-classification) are shown, including occupational importance and need for continuing medical treatment. It could be demonstrated that there are different areas of regarding diseases when comparing foreign and German workers, based on places of work, and on social and cultural factors.
Becher
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Rheinischer Gemeindeunfallversicherungsverband, Düsseldorf.
Sumadi
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Güthoff
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Haas
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J
D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D004641:Emigration and Immigration / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control