Health, Healthcare, and Medical Expenditures among Construction Workers

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• Personal Author:
  Dong, Xiuwen S. ; Katz, Rebecca ; Wang, Xuanwen
• Corporate Authors:
  CPWR--The Center for Construction Research and Training. CPWR Data Center ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Construction workers are exposed to numerous hazards in the workplace that can not only lead to fatal and nonfatal injuries, but also cause chronic conditions and other adverse health effects. Understanding overall health status of construction workers, accessibility to care, and cost containment, and being alert to emerging issues that can affect these elements, will help ensure that workers are afforded accessible, high quality, and cost-effective care. Moreover, identifying and measuring health problems and the associated costs can motivate construction workers and the public to take these problems more seriously, and help policy makers to formulate health policies and allocate medical resources effi ciently. Therefore, this Quarterly Data Report provides updated information on health status, healthcare utilization, and medical expenditures among construction workers by analyzing the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS). The MEPS is a large nationally representative household survey conducted by the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality and the National Center for Health Statistics. In addition to employment and demographic data, the MEPS collects detailed information on health, healthcare, insurance coverage, medical expenditures, sources of payment, and other factors for the U.S. civilian non-institution population. This report focused on construction workers, and compared them to workers in all industries and major industry sectors for selected measures. For most analyses, the MEPS data between 2012 and 2014 were pooled together for reliable estimates. Data prior to 2012 were used for one historical comparison. Only employed respondents were included in the analysis. Thus, the numbers in this report may differ from reports on the general population (e.g., including those who were not in labor force) that use the same data source.
  
  NIOSHTIC no.20050515
  
  publications_4th_Quarter_2016.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Safety
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement U60-OH009762 from The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  31 numbered pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20050515
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/157869/cdc_157869_DS1.pdf
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