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Kreshpaj, BertinaKarolinska Institutet
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Under-reporting of non-fatal occupational injuries among precarious and non-precarious workers in Sweden
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2021-09-20
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BMJ,2022
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LIBRIS-ID:oai:DiVA.org:su-200950
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https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-200950URI
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https://doi.org/10.1136/oemed-2021-107856DOI
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http://kipublications.ki.se/Default.aspx?queryparsed=id:148261760URI
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Background Under-reporting of occupational injuries (OIs) among precariously employed workers in Sweden challenges effective surveillance of OIs and targeted preventive measures.Objective To estimate the magnitude of under-reporting of OIs among precarious and non-precarious workers in Sweden in 2013.Methods Capture–recapture methods were applied using the national OIs register and records from a labour market insurance company. Employed workers 18–65 resident in Sweden in 2013 were included in the study (n=82 949 OIs). Precarious employment was operationalised using the national labour market register, while injury severity was constructed from the National Patient Register. Under-reporting estimates were computed stratifying by OIs severity and by sociodemographic characteristics, occupations and precarious employment.Results Under-reporting of OIs followed a dose–response pattern according to the levels of precariousness (the higher the precarious level, the higher the under-reporting) being for the precarious group (22.6%, 95% CI 21.3% to 23.8%), followed by the borderline precarious (17.6%, 95% CI 17.1% to 18.2%) and lastly the non-precarious (15.0%, 95% CI 14.7% to 15.3%). Under-reporting of OIs, decreased as the injury severity increased and was higher with highest level of precariousness in all groups of severity. We also observed higher under-reporting estimates among all occupations in the precarious and borderline precarious groups as compared with the non-precarious ones.Conclusions This is the first register-based study to empirically demonstrate in Sweden that under-reporting of OIs is 50% higher among precariously employed workers. OIs under-reporting may represent unrecognised injuries that especially burden precariously employed workers as financial, health and social consequences shift from the employer to the employee.
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Bodin, TheoKarolinska Institutet
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Wegman, David H.
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Matilla-Santander, NuriaKarolinska Institutet
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Burstrom, BoKarolinska Institutet
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Kjellberg, KatarinaKarolinska Institutet
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Davis, Letitia
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Hemmingsson, TomasStockholms universitet,Institutionen för folkhälsovetenskap,Karolinska Institutet, Sweden(Swepub:su)tohe6086
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Jonsson, Johanna
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Håkansta, CarinKarolinska Institutet
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Orellana, CeciliaKarolinska Institutet
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Karolinska InstitutetInstitutionen för folkhälsovetenskap
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In:Occupational and Environmental Medicine: BMJ79:1, s. 3-91351-07111470-7926
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