Proposed Occupational Vulnerability Index COVID-19
Proposed Occupational Vulnerability Index COVID-19作者机构：Asociación Españ ola de Especialistas en Medicina del Trabajo Madrid Spain Occupational Health and Safety Services of SPP Correos Valencia Spain Occupational Health and Safety Services of SPP Correos Albacete Spain Occupational Health and Safety Services of SPA ITEM-Prevención Albacete Spain Department of Occupational and Prevention at University Hospital Fundación Jiménez Díaz Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Madrid Spain Occupational Medicine Service Grupo Banco Santander Madrid Spain Faculty of Health Sciences Universidad Internacional de la Rioja La Rioja Spain Occupational Medicine SABIC Medical Services Cartagena Spain University-PDI. Instituto de Matemática Multidisciplinar. Universitat Politècnica de València Valencia Spain
出 版 物：《Occupational Diseases and Environmental Medicine》 (职业病与环境医学（英文）)
年 卷 期：2020年第8卷第4期
页 面：175-187页
学科分类：1004[医学-公共卫生与预防医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 100402[医学-劳动卫生与环境卫生学] 10[医学]
主 题：COVID-19 Index Occupational Vulnerability Occupational Health Occupational Medicine
摘 要：Introduction: Vulnerable is someone who can be hurt or receive injury, physically or morally. The work environment appears as one of the dimensions in which social vulnerability develops and social and occupational vulnerability is defined. The literature does not include an assessment of quantified occupational vulnerability as it already exists in the case of social vulnerability. The aim of this paper is to identify and quantify the variables included in the Protocol for the Assessment of Vulnerability to COVID-19 in such a way that the result can be quantified and allows for a predictive effect on the degree of vulnerability. Methodology: The starting point is the design of a protocol proposal that includes 29 variables. Data is collected from a sample of 420 workers, quantifying the results according to each variable, the overall scores for each group of aspects assessed and, finally, the total score that estimates the degree of vulnerability according to established ranges. Results: Variables that have the highest coefficient and, therefore, the greatest weight in the probability of reaching a group of high or medium vulnerability are cardiovascular disease, cancer, and coagulation alteration. The weight of the labour aspects due to inadequate working conditions stands out. Conclusions: The results obtained with this protocol allow us to make a quantified assessment of labour vulnerability to COVID-19 by integrating individual variables of the worker, his working conditions and the preventive actions of his company against COVID-19, and can be useful as an Occupational Vulnerability Index (OVI).
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