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Kim, Park, Leem, Won, Han, Chung, Kim, Kim, Hong, Kim, Kim, Kim, Lee, Lee, Kang, Kwak, and Rhie: Area-Based Occupational Disease Surveillance in Incheon, Korea: Results of an 11-year Data Survey
Original Article

Korean Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2010; 22(3): 183-199.

Published online: 30 September 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35371/kjoem.2010.22.3.183

Area-Based Occupational Disease Surveillance in Incheon, Korea: Results of an 11-year Data Survey

Jeong-Hoon Kim, Shin-Goo Park, Jong-Han Leem, Jong Uk Won1, Sang-Hwan Han2, Soo-Young Chung3, Sang-Hoon Kim4, Hwan-Cheol Kim, Yun-Chul Hong5, Cheol-Woo Kim6, Chang-Hwan Kim7, Dong-Hyun Kim, Dong-Hoon Lee, Seung-Jun Lee, Young-Joong Kang2, Woo-Seok Kwak8, Jeongbae Rhie8

Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Inha University Hospital, Korea.

1Department of Preventive Medicine and Institute for Occupational Health, College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Korea.

2Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Gachon University Gil Hospital, Korea.

3Department of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, Incheon Joongang General Hospital, Korea.

4Center of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, lncheon Sarang Hospital, Korea.

5Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Korea.

6Department of Internal Medicine, Inha University College of Medicine, Korea.

7Department of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Inha University College of Medicine, Korea.

8Graduate School of Public Health and Institute for Occupational Health, Yonsei University, Korea.

Corresponding author (oem@inha.ac.kr)

Received 12 April 2010       Revised 13 July 2010       Accepted 14 July 2010

Copyright © 2010 The Korean Society of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Abstract

Objectives

Between Jan 1998 and Dec 2008, area-based occupational disease surveillance in Incheon was used to collect data on occupational diseases. The long-term data was used to estimate the scale of disease, to analyze disease characteristics, and to achieve surveillance in order to determine development tasks.

Methods

For a period of 11 years, occupation-related disease surveillance was performed on an annual basis for employees of Incheon industries. All cases of occupational disease were reported by means of the Incheon Occupational Disease Information Network (IODIN) web site, downloaded, and analyzed, subsequently.

Results

Between Jan 1998 and Dec 2008, 1577 cases of occupational disease were reported. Of these, there were 1043(66.1%) cases of occupational musculoskeletal disorders, 172(10.9%) cases of occupational asthma, 162(10.3%) cases of occupational dermatoses, 135(8.6%) cases of occupationally-related cancers, 30(1.9%) cases of pneumoconiosis, 27(1.7%) cases of toxic hepatitis, and 8(0.5%) cases of occupational neuronal disease.

Conclusion

In the Incheon area, small and medium industries comprise 99% of business. The composition of the industry by category, in Incheon, is similar to the country on the whole. In actually, the data on occupational diseases in Korea are almost workers' compensation data. Thus, the survey of occupational disease based in Incheon, Korea, can serve as an estimate of the trends and size of the occupational disease throughout the entire country.

Keywords: Occupational disease, Surveillance, Incheon

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