Journal article
Occupational injuries among older workers with disabilities: A prospective cohort study of the Health and Retirement Survey, 1992 to 1994
American journal of public health (1971), Vol.88(11), pp.1691-1695
11/01/1998
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.88.11.1691
PMCID: PMC1508572
PMID: 9807538
Abstract
We tested the hypothesis that among older workers, disabilities in general, and hearing and visual impairments in particular, are risk factors for occupational injuries. Using the first 2 interviews of the Health and Retirement Study, a nationally representative survey of Americans aged 51 to 61 years, we conducted a prospective cohort study of 5600 employed nonfarmers. Testing a logistic regression model developed in a previous cross-sectional study, we found that the following occupations and risk factors were associated with occupational injury as estimated by odds ratios: service personnel, odds ratio = 1.71 (95% confidence interval = 1.13, 2.57); mechanics and repairers, 3.47 (1.98, 6.10); operators and assemblers, 2.33 (1.51, 3.61); laborers, 3.16 (1.67, 5.98); jobs requiring heavy lifting, 2.05 (1.55, 2.70); self-employment, 0.50 (0.34, 0.73); and self-reported disability, 1.58 (1.14, 2.19). Replacing the general disability variable with specific hearing and visual impairment variables, we found that poor hearing (1.35 [0.95, 1.93]) and poor sight (1.45 [0.94, 2.22]) both had elevated odds ratios. Poor sight and poor hearing, as well as work disabilities in general, are associated with occupational injuries among older workers.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Occupational injuries among older workers with disabilities: A prospective cohort study of the Health and Retirement Survey, 1992 to 1994
- Creators
- Craig Zwerling - University of IowaNancy L SprinceCharles S DavisPaul S WhittenRobert B Wallace - Internal MedicineStephen G Heeringa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- American journal of public health (1971), Vol.88(11), pp.1691-1695
- DOI
- 10.2105/AJPH.88.11.1691
- PMID
- 9807538
- PMCID
- PMC1508572
- NLM abbreviation
- Am J Public Health
- ISSN
- 0090-0036
- eISSN
- 1541-0048
- Publisher
- American Public Health Association
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/01/1998
- Academic Unit
- Occupational and Environmental Health; Epidemiology; Injury Prevention Research Center; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984363641602771
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