title: [The influence of preventive programs on laboral injuries].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the impact of preventive programs at enterprises affiliated to the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS) during 2004.
  
  
  METHODS
  Transversal study in 987 enterprises.
  
  
  METHODS
  labor injuries (LI) of temporal disability, permanent disability and death.
  
  
  METHODS
  simple and relative frequencies, rates and Anova application to differences.
  
  
  RESULTS
  64.4% of the enterprises decrease LI (p < 0.04), with a decrement of 2602 LI (16%); the rate of LI per 100 workers declined from 4.19 to 3.60 (p < 0.08), with a decrease of 43,369 disability days (10.93%), which represents $8,456,955 MXP. States with larger decreases were: Queretaro (80%) p < 0.05; Sinaloa (63%) p < 0.05, and Morelos (61%) p < 0.05. Permanent incapacities diminished at 12.1%, p < 0.09; the rate of permanent disability per 1000 workers diminished from 1.37 to 1.32 and death cases increased from 42 to 49.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  the expenses on consultancy by IMSS was estimated as $9,341,955 MXP. The savings on temporal and permanent incapacities was $33,691,255 MXP with a cost containment of $19,701,310 MXP. Preventive programs are profitable, because they generate benefits to the workers, the IMSS and the enterprises.
authors.affiliation: Coordinación de Salud en el Trabajo, Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Mexico. paloros@gmail.com
authors.forename: Pablo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: López-Rojas
authors.forename: Santiago
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Salinas-Tovar
authors.forename: Irma Araceli
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Marín-Cotoñieto
authors.forename: María Martha
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Méndez-Vargas
authors.forename: Rafael Martin
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Quezada-Ortega
authors.forename: Eva
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Martínez-Ramírez
mesh_terms: D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000517:prevention & control*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D006801:Humans; D008800:Mexico; D016272:Occupational Health; D011322:Primary Prevention