SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online

 
vol.21 número2Factores prenatales asociados al incumplimiento del esquema básico de vacunación en menores de 5 añosHábito de higiene de manos y patógenos hallados en estudiantes de medicina índice de autoresíndice de materiabúsqueda de artículos
Home Pagelista alfabética de revistas  

Servicios Personalizados

Revista

Articulo

Indicadores

  • No hay articulos citadosCitado por SciELO

Links relacionados

  • No hay articulos similaresSimilares en SciELO

Compartir


Revista de la Facultad de Medicina Humana

versión impresa ISSN 1814-5469versión On-line ISSN 2308-0531

Resumen

SUAREZ EGOAVIL, Catherine Amparo. Occupational disease and absenteeism in the workers in one hospital in Lima - Perú. Rev. Fac. Med. Hum. [online]. 2021, vol.21, n.2, pp.364-371. ISSN 1814-5469.  http://dx.doi.org/10.25176/rfmh.v21i2.3657.

Introduction:

Absenteeism from work in public or private institutions is classified as one of the main labor problems.

Objective:

To determine the association between occupational disease and work absenteeism at the Hospital Policial Augusto Belisario Leguía, in the years 2017-2018.

Methodology:

A descriptive, cross-sectional, and qualitative-quantitative retrospective study in a convenience sample of 79 medical breaks with a diagnosis of occupational diseases of police health personnel. Collecting data was used.

Results:

The highest work absenteeism occurred in female patients, married, over 50 years of age, technical nursing profession and with a work seniority of more than 20 years. A global absenteeism rate of 7.56% (2017) and 6.39% (2018) was obtained, a severity index of 25.12 days (2017) and 26.43 days (2018).

Conclusions:

Occupational diseases caused by physical agents develop greater absenteeism due to musculoskeletal injuries more frequently.

Palabras clave : Occupational illness; Absenteeism from work (Source: Mesh - NLM)..

        · resumen en Español     · texto en Español | Inglés     · Español ( pdf ) | Inglés ( pdf )