F G Benavides

..This study analyses the relationship between immigrants' perceived discrimination and various self-reported health indicators...

..This study aims to assess rates of sickness presenteeism in a sample of Spanish-born and foreign-born workers according to different characteristics...

..To compare the risk of occupational injury (OI) by nationality in 2003 and 2004...

..To compare the length of nonwork-related sick leave among cases managed by an insurance company versus those managed by the National Institute of Social Security (NISS)...

..To determine whether observed higher risks of occupational injury among temporary workers are due to exposure to hazardous working conditions and/or to lack of job experience level...

..Preventive activities should focus both on working conditions at the company level (micro) as well as on employment and industrial public policies (macro). Greater evaluation is needed of these latter policies...

..We examined the effectiveness of preventive interventions against occupational injuries (preferential action plans [PAPs]) developed by Spanish regional governments starting in 2000...

..In Spain, sick pay benefits for work-related sick leave episodes are higher than for non-work-related episodes. Our aim is to assess whether time to return to work is longer for higher paid sick leave episodes than for lower paid episodes...

..This study is aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of these plans...

..It is often difficult to discern whether a disease is an occupational or common disease, especially in a primary care setting...

..To identify and select common diseases of possible occupational origin, managed through the Spanish National Health System...

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..To describe the incidence of permanent disability, both work-related and non-work-related, by several socioeconomic and geographical variables...

..Thoroughness in a given health information system is one of its most important quality indicators. In Spain, in approximately 30% of serious occupational injuries, there is no information on the final outcome...

..To know the prevalence of emotional disorders in a working population...

..Comparison of workplace injury statistics among countries is often problematic, mainly because work injury statistics are based on different national recording and notification systems...

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..To describe the distribution of work-related psychosocial risk factor scores in four companies according to the personal and occupational characteristics of the workers...

..To determine the sickness absence frequency in European Union (EU) countries...

..To evaluate mesothelioma death trends in Spain and to predict the number of future cases of mesothelioma...

..Spain has recently become an inward migration country. Little is known about the occupational health of immigrant workers. This study aimed to explore the perceptions that immigrant workers in Spain had of their working conditions...

..Globalization has led to a growth in migration, as people leave their countries in search of work. We aimed to describe the dimensions of precarious employment for immigrant workers in Spain...

..Migrant workers contribute to the economic growth of high-income countries often serving as the labour force performing dangerous, dirty and degrading work that nationals are reluctant to perform...

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..Household service work has been largely absent from occupational health studies. We examine the occupational hazards and health effects identified by immigrant women household service workers...

..This study analyze the duration of episodes of work absence due to non work-related diseases in Catalonia by health regions, assuming a homogeneous distribution of durations between health regions...

..The Employment Precariousness Scale (EPRES) is a newly developed, theory-based, multidimensional questionnaire specifically devised for epidemiological studies among waged and salaried workers...

..To describe the characteristics of precarious employment in undocumented immigrants in Spain and its relationship with health...

..Other studies are necessary to confirm these results and to assess job control and job social support. This would be another step in improving our knowledge of the quality of measurement of psychosocial risk factors...

..An alternative is also proposed for dealing with the conditions and settings needed to meet the new challenges related to establishing an effective occupational health policy...

..Further research on the associations between working conditions and sickness absence needs to take into account the distinction between sickness absences due to work-related diseases and those due to common diseases...

..This paper summarizes the information on immigrant occupational health available from recent studies, incorporating varied study designs...

..Available information on the occupational conditions of foreign workers is scarce. This study aims to add to this information by describing occupational injuries in foreign workers in Spain. Design, setting,..

..This study compares associations between types of employment and health indicators in the Second (ES1995) and the Third European Survey on Working Conditions (ES2000) by gender, adjusting for individual and country-level confounders...

..There is very scarce scientific evidence based on empirical data, probably because there are no standard or valid methodologies for all professions and circumstances...

..To examine the association between psychosocial work factors and work related sickness absence among permanent and non-permanent employees by sex...

..To evaluate the quality of medical diagnosis in the sick leave certificate...

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..To describe the duration of non-work related sickness absences incidents according to age, sex, economic activity and Autonomous Community...

..To describe time trends in fatal traumatic occupational injuries by economic activity, type of contract, age, and gender between 1992 and 2002 in Spain...

..This study was aimed at comparing the incidence of fatal and non-fatal occupational accident injuries by Autonomous Communities in 1989, 1993 and 2000...

..The objective of this study is to compare cost differences of temporary sickness absence between Barcelona and Madrid...

..The objective of this study was to compare the incidences for both fatal and non-fatal injuries in foreign workers to that of Spanish workers in 2005, by autonomous community and economic activity...

..Recent U.S. data suggest an increased risk of work-related asthma among health care workers, yet only a few specific determinants have been elucidated...

..Since this is only the first study on occupational exposures and K-ras mutations in EPC, studies able to refute or to confirm the findings are required before public health implications, if any, are assessed...