Occupational Disease as the Bane of Workers' Lives: A Study of Its Incidence in Slovakia. Part 2.

Miriam Andrejiova,Miriama Pinosova,Miroslav Badida

doi:10.3390/ijerph182412990

Abstract

The main objective of this article is to monitor the development of the number of occupational diseases related to selected physical factors in the working environment (noise, vibration and dust). Each region of Slovakia has its own specific social and economic conditions. Due to the existence of a strong correlation between the several regional variables observed, principal component analysis (PCA) was used to determine the new variables. Cluster analysis was used to group regions with similar characteristics. A dendrogram was created using the average linkage method, which illustrated the similarity of the regions studied. The value of the cophenetic correlation coefficient (CC = 0.90) confirms the validity of the average linkage method. The result of the cluster analysis is the grouping of the eight regions into five homogenic groups (clusters). An analysis of the data shows that Slovakia’s regional differences significantly influence the incidence of occupational diseases in individual regions. It is shown that, in Slovakia, the development of the number of occupational diseases has seen a favourable trend in the long term.

Highlights

The overall health of a population that supports itself mainly through manual work is affected by a range of unfavourable workplace risks involving multiple physical factors.Long-standing efforts and the gathering of scientific evidence in the area of health and safety overwhelmingly confirmed what many experts have long assumed: that risk factors in the workplace can contribute to health problems that were previously considered to be unrelated to work.The development of occupational diseases was monitored and evaluated by a large number of authors [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]
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Introduction

The overall health of a population that supports itself mainly through manual work is affected by a range of unfavourable workplace risks involving multiple physical factors. The development of occupational diseases was monitored and evaluated by a large number of authors [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]. In their articles, they presented retrospective studies that analysed the structure, causes, occurrence and trends in the development of occupational diseases over a certain period of time in a given country. Piňosová et al (2021) [15] compiled a detailed chronological overview of the literature on the development of occupational diseases and the historical development of the ILO

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