Occupational health in Massachusetts: use of workers' compensation insurance for medical care for work-related injuries

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• Corporate Authors:
  Massachusetts. Department of Public Health. Occupational Health Surveillance Program
• Description:
  Highlights: 1) An anonymous telephone survey, the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, included questions about workers' compensation for 4,321 Massachusetts adults in 2007. 2) Of these survey respondents who had been employed for wages, 4.2% reported being injured seriously enough while performing job duties during the previous 12 months that they required medical advice or treatment. 3) Of the respondents who had a workplace injury requiring medical attention, just under 60% reported that workers' compensation insurance paid for the care. 4) By far the most frequent source of payment other than workers' compensation was private insurance (24% of respondents). 5) These findings suggest that Massachusetts workers are not receiving all the occupational health benefits to which they are entitled, and that these costs are being shifted to other sources. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Environmental Exposure Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Surveys And Questionnaires Workplace
• Keywords:
  Disabled-workers Health-care Health-protection Health-surveys Industrial-exposures Information-retrieval-systems Information-systems Injuries Injury-prevention Medical-treatment Occupational-health Occupations Questionnaires Risk-factors Statistical-analysis Surveillance-programs Work-environment

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• Publisher:
  Massachusetts Department of Public Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20042558
• Citation:
  Boston, MA: Massachusetts Department of Public Health, 2009 Dec; :1-4
• Contact Point Address:
  Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Occupational Health Surveillance Program, 250 Washington Street, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02108
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2010
• NORA Priority Area:
  Healthcare and Social Assistance
• Performing Organization:
  Massachusetts State Department of Public Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Occupational health in Massachusetts: use of workers' compensation insurance for medical care for work-related injuries
• End Date:
  20260630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7c9c1d7f8cee0f94029b679bcdf49794264235f350bc0009326e7e3cd965846e0ca8715ae9e8d1408e874f4458653ad29dffd658cc13df97b275720b6462fde1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/194745/cdc_194745_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 210.71 KB ]