Incidence of workers compensation indemnity claims across socio-demographic and job characteristics

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• Personal Author:
  Du J ; Leigh JP
• Description:
  BACKGROUND: We hypothesized that low socioeconomic status, employer-provided health insurance, low wages, and overtime were predictors of reporting workers compensation indemnity claims. We also tested for gender and race disparities. METHODS: Responses from 17,190 (person-years) Americans participating in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, 1997-2005, were analyzed with logistic regressions. The dependent variable indicated whether the subject collected benefits from a claim. RESULTS: Odds ratios for men and African-Americans were relatively large and strongly significant predictors of claims; significance for Hispanics was moderate and confounded by education. Odds ratios for variables measuring education were the largest for all statistically significant covariates. Neither low wages nor employer-provided health insurance was a consistent predictor. Due to confounding from the "not salaried" variable, overtime was not a consistently significant predictor. CONCLUSION: Few studies use nationally representative longitudinal data to consider which demographic and job characteristics predict reporting workers compensation indemnity cases. This study did and tested some common hypotheses about predictors. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Demography Education Occupational Health Race Factors Safety Sex Characteristics Surveys And Questionnaires
• Keywords:
  Demographic-characteristics Health-care Health-surveys Information-retrieval-systems Injuries Job-analysis Long-term-study Lost-work-days Mathematical-models Racial-factors Sex-factors Sociological-factors Statistical-analysis Work-analysis Worker-health

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• ISSN:
  0271-3586
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 9 ; Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  54
• Issue:
  10
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20040176
• Citation:
  Am J Ind Med 2011 Oct; 54(10):758-770
• Contact Point Address:
  J. Paul Leigh, PhD, Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, UC Davis Medical School, MS1C, Davis, CA 95616-5270
• Email:
  pleigh@ucdavis.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2012
• Performing Organization:
  University of California - Davis
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050601
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Industrial Medicine
• End Date:
  20100531
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:937b014e47e05afbbc02fe11b0c9c39332bf77d8b959033e1be478f700d0b4cac2565cbb98d22595dd1baa6b9cf6051db92c12c96101ccc7c554b05d4c3195d7
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/193127/cdc_193127_DS1.pdf
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