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Modalidades de contratación y siniestralidad laboral en España en el período 1988-1995. SUMARIO C... more Modalidades de contratación y siniestralidad laboral en España en el período 1988-1995. SUMARIO Con el fin de mejorar el conocimiento de la relación trabajo precario-salud se ha realizado un estudio sobre la siniestralidad, según el tipo de contrato, durante el período 1988-95, utilizando los accidentes de trabajo con baja en jornada laboral y la población asalariada para calcular los índices de incidencia y la razón de incidencia como estimador del riesgo diferencial según el tipo de contrato. En el período de estudio ha aumentado la contratación temporal y la siniestralidad, sobre todo en la construcción y se observa una gran asociación entre temporalidad y siniestralidad laboral, que no parece estar relacionada con las características personales de los trabajadores, sino con las diferentes condiciones de trabajo, según el tipo de contrato y la asignación de trabajadores temporales menos cualificados a tareas de alto riesgo. Palabras clave: Contratación, trabajo temporal, siniestr...
Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2004
Aims: To explore the relation between safety climate (workers’ perceptions regarding management’s... more Aims: To explore the relation between safety climate (workers’ perceptions regarding management’s attitudes towards occupational safety and health) and workers’ behaviour at work.Methods: Cross sectional survey of workers at the pottery industry in Castellon, Spain. Sampling was stratified by plant size and workers’ gender, according to data on the working population at this setting. A total of 734 production workers
Actas Urologicas Espanolas, 2010
Adrenal incidentaloma′s prevalence is rising because of the big volume of radiologic explorations... more Adrenal incidentaloma′s prevalence is rising because of the big volume of radiologic explorations that we daily do. No comprehensive guidelines have been published by professional societies to guide the evaluation of patients with adrenal incidentalomas. All adrenal masses should be inspected for malignancy or hypersecreting disorders. In our point of view, adrenal surgery should be performed by the urologist, because
Revue Neurologique, 2010
IntroductionLaparoscopic adrenalectomy is currently the gold standard in surgical management of a... more IntroductionLaparoscopic adrenalectomy is currently the gold standard in surgical management of adrenal pathology.
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Gaceta Sanitaria, 2014
This article describes the experience of knowledge translation between researchers of the ITSAL (... more This article describes the experience of knowledge translation between researchers of the ITSAL (immigration, work and health) project and representatives of organizations working with immigrants to discuss the results obtained in the project and future research lines. A meeting was held, attended by three researchers and 18 representatives from 11 institutions. Following a presentation of the methodology and results of the project, the participants discussed the results presented and research areas of interest, thus confirming matches between the two sides and obtaining proposals of interest for the ITSAL project. We understand the process described as an approach to social validation of some of the main results of this project. This experience has allowed us to open a channel of communication with the target population of the study, in line with the necessary two-way interaction between researchers and users.
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To describe the incidence of permanent disability, both work-related and non-work-related, by sev... more To describe the incidence of permanent disability, both work-related and non-work-related, by several socioeconomic and geographical variables. We performed a retrospective study of a cohort of 768,454 workers covered by the General Social Security Regimen, followed-up from 2004 to 2007. This study was based on the Continuous Working Life Survey. In the 4 years of follow-up, 7,749 cases in 1,937,921 workers-years were identified. Incidence rates and crude and adjusted rate ratios were estimated by Poisson regression models. The incidence of non-work-related permanent disability was 10 times greater than that of work-related disability (36.3 versus 3.7 per 10,000 workers-years). The incidences for both non-work-related and work-related disability were higher in men and increased with age and lower education level. For non-work-related permanent disability, the region with the highest incidence was Asturias and that with the lowest was Madrid (56.7 vs. 23.3). For work-related permanen...
Revista española de salud pública
[corrected] The strategic action plans have been the main preventive activities carried out by th... more [corrected] The strategic action plans have been the main preventive activities carried out by the Autonomous Community Governments in relation to occupational injuries in Spain since 1999. This study is aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of these plans. A total of 4,714,080 cases of non-fatal traumatic occupational injuries leading to disability having occured within the 1994-2004 period due to mechanical causes and over-exertion at non-publicly owned service and manufacturing companies were included. Based on the annual incidence rates, the percentage of annual change and the 95% confidence interval (95% CI) were estimated for the periods prior to and following the start-up of the Strategic Action Plans by means of negative binomial regression. The pattern found followed an upward trend during the periods prior to the start-up of the Strategic Actions Plans, followed by a downward trend as of the start-up of these plans. For example, in Aragon, where the Strategic Action Plan was started up in 999, a +5.3% rise was found within the 1994-1999 period, as compared to a -4.9% decrease during the 2000-2004 period. On the Balearic Islands, which started up their Strategic Action Plan in 2002, the corresponding trend was +5.4% for 1994-2001, as compared to -14% for 2002-2004. However, similar trends were found in Madrid (-3.9% for 2000-2004) or in Galicia (-4.8% for 2000-2004), where there is no record of any specific Strategic Action Plan having been gotten under way during the period under study. These results do not make it possible to attribute the widespread drop in the non-fatal traumatic occupational injury incidence as of 2000 in Spain to the Strategic Action Plans. Possibly other actions of a general nature which may have had a bearing on all of the Autonomous Communities in the same manner (including those which have not developed their own Strategic Action Plans) might explain this drop in the incidence of the occupational injuries selected in this analysis.
Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)
We examined the effectiveness of preventive interventions against occupational injuries (preferen... more We examined the effectiveness of preventive interventions against occupational injuries (preferential action plans [PAPs]) developed by Spanish regional governments starting in 2000. We included 3,252,028 occupational injuries with sick leave due to mechanical causes occurring between 1994 and 2004 in manufacturing and private service companies. Time trends for occupational injury rates were estimated before and after implementation of PAPs in each region, with a control group defined for those regions in which no PAPs were implemented (e.g., Galicia, Madrid, and Cataluña). We determined annual change percentages and their 95% confidence intervals (CIs) through a negative binomial regression model. Regions were grouped into three categories according to formal quality of their PAPs. The regions with the best PAPs (Andalucia, Aragon, Valencia, and Murcia) showed annually increasing occupational injury rates (2.3%, 95% CI -2.5, 7.4) before implementation of PAPs. After PAPs were imple...
Archivos de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales, 2013
Revista Española de Salud Pública, 2007
Fundamento. Los planes de actuación preferente (PAP) han sido las principales actividades prevent... more Fundamento. Los planes de actuación preferente (PAP) han sido las principales actividades preventivas desarrolladas por las comunidades autónomas (CCAA) frente a las lesiones por accidentes de trabajo (LAT) en España desde 1999. El objetivo de este trabajo es evaluar la efectividad de los planes.
Descripción de las tendencias de las lesiones por accidentes de trabajo por Comunidades Autónomas... more Descripción de las tendencias de las lesiones por accidentes de trabajo por Comunidades Autónomas, 1994-2004 © Observatorio de Salud Laboral (OSL), 2007 Conclusiones 1. La tendencia de las LAT analizadas en este estudio experimentan, en todas las CCAA, un descenso significativo a partir del año 2000. Un cambio de tendencia que, de acuerdo con los resultados del estudio, difícilmente puede ser atribuido específicamente a los PAP.
Safety Science, 2013
The objective was to evaluate the effectiveness of an occupational injury prevention program, kno... more The objective was to evaluate the effectiveness of an occupational injury prevention program, known as the Preferential Action Plan (PAP), focused on companies with high incidence rates of occupational injuries. We studied 1189 companies in the industrial, construction and services sectors between 1999 and 2007 in the Valencia region (Spain). Our sample included 507,262 workers, among whom 44,250 nonfatal occupational injuries with at least a workday lost were registered. Companies included in a PAP program were divided into three intervention groups, according to the year that each company entered into a PAP (2000, 2001, and 2002). We calculated annual percentage change in incidence rates of occupational injuries for companies with a PAP and for those without a PAP (comparison group), and trends in the incidence rates of occupational injuries were compared between each intervention group and the comparison group. The results showed that the trend in the occupational injury rate declined 12%, 14% and 11% annually for the 2000, 2001, and 2002 intervention groups respectively, and around 5% for the comparison group. The differences in intervention and comparison group trends were found to be statistically significant. This pattern is observed by company size and activity sector, length of sick leave, and type of injury. According to these results, the use of PAPs in companies with high incidence rates of occupational injuries seems to be effective in the prevention of occupational injuries.
Modalidades de contratación y siniestralidad laboral en España en el período 1988-1995. SUMARIO C... more Modalidades de contratación y siniestralidad laboral en España en el período 1988-1995. SUMARIO Con el fin de mejorar el conocimiento de la relación trabajo precario-salud se ha realizado un estudio sobre la siniestralidad, según el tipo de contrato, durante el período 1988-95, utilizando los accidentes de trabajo con baja en jornada laboral y la población asalariada para calcular los índices de incidencia y la razón de incidencia como estimador del riesgo diferencial según el tipo de contrato. En el período de estudio ha aumentado la contratación temporal y la siniestralidad, sobre todo en la construcción y se observa una gran asociación entre temporalidad y siniestralidad laboral, que no parece estar relacionada con las características personales de los trabajadores, sino con las diferentes condiciones de trabajo, según el tipo de contrato y la asignación de trabajadores temporales menos cualificados a tareas de alto riesgo. Palabras clave: Contratación, trabajo temporal, siniestr...
Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2004
Aims: To explore the relation between safety climate (workers’ perceptions regarding management’s... more Aims: To explore the relation between safety climate (workers’ perceptions regarding management’s attitudes towards occupational safety and health) and workers’ behaviour at work.Methods: Cross sectional survey of workers at the pottery industry in Castellon, Spain. Sampling was stratified by plant size and workers’ gender, according to data on the working population at this setting. A total of 734 production workers
Actas Urologicas Espanolas, 2010
Adrenal incidentaloma′s prevalence is rising because of the big volume of radiologic explorations... more Adrenal incidentaloma′s prevalence is rising because of the big volume of radiologic explorations that we daily do. No comprehensive guidelines have been published by professional societies to guide the evaluation of patients with adrenal incidentalomas. All adrenal masses should be inspected for malignancy or hypersecreting disorders. In our point of view, adrenal surgery should be performed by the urologist, because
Revue Neurologique, 2010
IntroductionLaparoscopic adrenalectomy is currently the gold standard in surgical management of a... more IntroductionLaparoscopic adrenalectomy is currently the gold standard in surgical management of adrenal pathology.
Archivos de prevención de riesgos laborales
Gaceta Sanitaria, 2014
This article describes the experience of knowledge translation between researchers of the ITSAL (... more This article describes the experience of knowledge translation between researchers of the ITSAL (immigration, work and health) project and representatives of organizations working with immigrants to discuss the results obtained in the project and future research lines. A meeting was held, attended by three researchers and 18 representatives from 11 institutions. Following a presentation of the methodology and results of the project, the participants discussed the results presented and research areas of interest, thus confirming matches between the two sides and obtaining proposals of interest for the ITSAL project. We understand the process described as an approach to social validation of some of the main results of this project. This experience has allowed us to open a channel of communication with the target population of the study, in line with the necessary two-way interaction between researchers and users.
Gaceta sanitaria / S.E.S.P.A.S
To describe the incidence of permanent disability, both work-related and non-work-related, by sev... more To describe the incidence of permanent disability, both work-related and non-work-related, by several socioeconomic and geographical variables. We performed a retrospective study of a cohort of 768,454 workers covered by the General Social Security Regimen, followed-up from 2004 to 2007. This study was based on the Continuous Working Life Survey. In the 4 years of follow-up, 7,749 cases in 1,937,921 workers-years were identified. Incidence rates and crude and adjusted rate ratios were estimated by Poisson regression models. The incidence of non-work-related permanent disability was 10 times greater than that of work-related disability (36.3 versus 3.7 per 10,000 workers-years). The incidences for both non-work-related and work-related disability were higher in men and increased with age and lower education level. For non-work-related permanent disability, the region with the highest incidence was Asturias and that with the lowest was Madrid (56.7 vs. 23.3). For work-related permanen...
Revista española de salud pública
[corrected] The strategic action plans have been the main preventive activities carried out by th... more [corrected] The strategic action plans have been the main preventive activities carried out by the Autonomous Community Governments in relation to occupational injuries in Spain since 1999. This study is aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of these plans. A total of 4,714,080 cases of non-fatal traumatic occupational injuries leading to disability having occured within the 1994-2004 period due to mechanical causes and over-exertion at non-publicly owned service and manufacturing companies were included. Based on the annual incidence rates, the percentage of annual change and the 95% confidence interval (95% CI) were estimated for the periods prior to and following the start-up of the Strategic Action Plans by means of negative binomial regression. The pattern found followed an upward trend during the periods prior to the start-up of the Strategic Actions Plans, followed by a downward trend as of the start-up of these plans. For example, in Aragon, where the Strategic Action Plan was started up in 999, a +5.3% rise was found within the 1994-1999 period, as compared to a -4.9% decrease during the 2000-2004 period. On the Balearic Islands, which started up their Strategic Action Plan in 2002, the corresponding trend was +5.4% for 1994-2001, as compared to -14% for 2002-2004. However, similar trends were found in Madrid (-3.9% for 2000-2004) or in Galicia (-4.8% for 2000-2004), where there is no record of any specific Strategic Action Plan having been gotten under way during the period under study. These results do not make it possible to attribute the widespread drop in the non-fatal traumatic occupational injury incidence as of 2000 in Spain to the Strategic Action Plans. Possibly other actions of a general nature which may have had a bearing on all of the Autonomous Communities in the same manner (including those which have not developed their own Strategic Action Plans) might explain this drop in the incidence of the occupational injuries selected in this analysis.
Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)
We examined the effectiveness of preventive interventions against occupational injuries (preferen... more We examined the effectiveness of preventive interventions against occupational injuries (preferential action plans [PAPs]) developed by Spanish regional governments starting in 2000. We included 3,252,028 occupational injuries with sick leave due to mechanical causes occurring between 1994 and 2004 in manufacturing and private service companies. Time trends for occupational injury rates were estimated before and after implementation of PAPs in each region, with a control group defined for those regions in which no PAPs were implemented (e.g., Galicia, Madrid, and Cataluña). We determined annual change percentages and their 95% confidence intervals (CIs) through a negative binomial regression model. Regions were grouped into three categories according to formal quality of their PAPs. The regions with the best PAPs (Andalucia, Aragon, Valencia, and Murcia) showed annually increasing occupational injury rates (2.3%, 95% CI -2.5, 7.4) before implementation of PAPs. After PAPs were imple...
Archivos de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales, 2013
Revista Española de Salud Pública, 2007
Fundamento. Los planes de actuación preferente (PAP) han sido las principales actividades prevent... more Fundamento. Los planes de actuación preferente (PAP) han sido las principales actividades preventivas desarrolladas por las comunidades autónomas (CCAA) frente a las lesiones por accidentes de trabajo (LAT) en España desde 1999. El objetivo de este trabajo es evaluar la efectividad de los planes.
Descripción de las tendencias de las lesiones por accidentes de trabajo por Comunidades Autónomas... more Descripción de las tendencias de las lesiones por accidentes de trabajo por Comunidades Autónomas, 1994-2004 © Observatorio de Salud Laboral (OSL), 2007 Conclusiones 1. La tendencia de las LAT analizadas en este estudio experimentan, en todas las CCAA, un descenso significativo a partir del año 2000. Un cambio de tendencia que, de acuerdo con los resultados del estudio, difícilmente puede ser atribuido específicamente a los PAP.
Safety Science, 2013
The objective was to evaluate the effectiveness of an occupational injury prevention program, kno... more The objective was to evaluate the effectiveness of an occupational injury prevention program, known as the Preferential Action Plan (PAP), focused on companies with high incidence rates of occupational injuries. We studied 1189 companies in the industrial, construction and services sectors between 1999 and 2007 in the Valencia region (Spain). Our sample included 507,262 workers, among whom 44,250 nonfatal occupational injuries with at least a workday lost were registered. Companies included in a PAP program were divided into three intervention groups, according to the year that each company entered into a PAP (2000, 2001, and 2002). We calculated annual percentage change in incidence rates of occupational injuries for companies with a PAP and for those without a PAP (comparison group), and trends in the incidence rates of occupational injuries were compared between each intervention group and the comparison group. The results showed that the trend in the occupational injury rate declined 12%, 14% and 11% annually for the 2000, 2001, and 2002 intervention groups respectively, and around 5% for the comparison group. The differences in intervention and comparison group trends were found to be statistically significant. This pattern is observed by company size and activity sector, length of sick leave, and type of injury. According to these results, the use of PAPs in companies with high incidence rates of occupational injuries seems to be effective in the prevention of occupational injuries.