ArticleAmerican journal of industrial medicine2019
Suicide and drug-related mortality following occupational injury.
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- Changes in drug poisoning mortality before and after the COVID-19 pandemic by occupation in Massachusetts.American journal of industrial medicine · 2022Article
- Relation between occupation, gender dominance in the occupation and workplace and suicide in Sweden: a longitudinal study.BMJ open · 2022Article
- Work-Life Stress during the Coronavirus Pandemic among Latina Farmworkers in a Rural California Region.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The relationship between work disability and subsequent suicide or self-harm: A scoping review.PLOS global public health · 2022Article
- It Is Time to Implement Primary Prevention in the Workplace to Ameliorate the Ongoing U.S. Opioid Epidemic.New solutions : a journal of environmental and occupational health policy : NS · 2021Article
- Rejection of workers' compensation claims may increase depressive symptoms among firefighters with occupational injury: a nationwide study in South Korea.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2021Article
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- Increased risk of suicide after occupational injury in Korea.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2021Article
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backgroundDrug overdoses and suicides have been rising since 2000 and are major contributors to a 3-year decline in US life expectancy. Studies suggest that injured workers have elevated rates of depression and opioid use, but no studies have measured excess mortality related to these risks. MATERIALS AND
methodsWe linked New Mexico workers' compensation data for 100 806 workers injured in 1994 through 2000 with Social Security Administration earnings and mortality data through 2013 and National Death Index cause of death data. We then estimated the association between receiving lost-time workers' compensation benefits and mortality hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) based on Fine and Gray cause-specific subdistribution hazards for common causes of death and for drug-related, suicide, and alcohol-related mortality.
resultsThere was almost a 3-fold increase in combined drug-related and suicide mortality hazard among women (HR = 2.63, 95% CI = 1.91-3.64) and a substantial increase among men (HR = 1.42, 95% CI = 1.13-1.79). Circulatory disease mortality hazard was elevated for men (HR = 1.25, 95% CI = 1.05-1.50).
conclusionWorkplace injuries severe enough to require more than a week off work may impair workers' long-term health and well-being. Drug-related deaths and suicides may be important contributors to the long-term excess mortality of injured workers. Improved workplace conditions, improved pain treatment, better treatment of substance use disorders, and treatment of postinjury depression may substantially reduce mortality consequent to workplace injuries.
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