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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 2003 was 8,055, up 553 people, a 7.4% increase from thepreceding year.
By cause, diseases stemming from occupational injuries came to 5,861 in 2003, representing 72.8% of the total.
The number of patients with lumbago caused by accidents was 4,765, representing 81.3%. Patients with
pneumoconiosis and its complications represented 10.6% of all patients with occupational diseases diagnosed in
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Fig. 23 Trends in the Number of Occupational Diseases by Industry (1975-2002) |
Source: Survey of Occupational Diseases, MHLW.
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