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4. Occupational Diseases
(1) Trends in Occupational Diseases
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The number of patients with occupational diseases that required
an absence of four days or more exceeded 20,000 in 1979, but then steadily
declined. The figure for 2002 was 7,502, down 4.0% from the preceding year.
By cause, diseases stemming from occupational injuries came
to 5,277 in 2002, representing 70.3% of the total. The number of patients
with lumbago caused by accidents was 4,334, representing 82.1%. Patients
with pneumoconiosis and its complications represented 12.7% of all patients
with occupational diseases diagnosed in 2002. |
Fig. 22 Occupational Diseases by Year (1972-2002) |
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