social inequalities in injury occurrence and in disability retirement attributable to injuries a 5 year follow-up study of a 2.1 million gainfully employed people社会不平等在损伤发生和残疾退休由于受伤的5年随访研究就业人数210万人.pdf

BMC Public Health BioMed Central Research article Open Access Social inequalities in injury occurrence and in disability retirement attributable to injuries: a 5 year follow-up study of a 2.1 million gainfully employed people 1 1 2 1 Harald Hannerz , Kim L Mikkelsen* , Martin L Nielsen , Finn Tüchsen and Søren Spangenberg1 Address: 1National Institute of Occupational Health, Copenhagen, Denmark and 2Department of Occupational Medicine, Hillerød Hospital, Hillerød, Denmark Email: Harald Hannerz - hh@ami.dk; Kim L Mikkelsen* - klm@ami.dk; Martin L Nielsen - malini@fa.dk; Finn Tüchsen - ft@ami.dk; Søren Spangenberg - ssp@ami.dk * Corresponding author Published: 23 August 2007 Received: 21 November 2006 Accepted: 23 August 2007 BMC Public Health 2007, 7:215 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-7-215 This article is available from: /1471-2458/7/215 © 2007 Hannerz et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Inequalities in injury related disability retirement may be due to differences in injury risk and or differences in retirement given injury. The aim of the present study was to measure social inequalities in injury occurrence and injury related disability retirement.