Cost of Occupational Diseases: A Review of Scientific Literature
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https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.rfnsp.v33n2a09Keywords:
occupational diseases, cost analysis, occupational disease, cost of disease, occupational healthAbstract
Objective: look the development of research about the work related illness published in the literature in different years, countries and economic activities and knows about the point of view to calculate the cost. Methodology: it was performance a systematic search, highly sensivity with the purpose of identify publications that could be accomplishment with inclusion criteria predefined by the authors. Databases such as PubMed, Ebsco, Lilacs, Online Wiley, Springer and Embase were consulted. The consultation period was from 2000 to 2013. Results: it was included 54 articles; most of them were written in English and made in the United States. With respect to the methodology most of them are studies of burden of disease. The most of the costs include are indirect and direct costs and the point of view to calculate those were the social perspective. Conclusion: the most advanced economies in the world are the majority research about this subject. This is role model for economies in development such Colombian. Related to the language of publication there are few publication in Spanish all of them from Spain this is a reason to make more this kind of research in Latino America.
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