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标题：Injuries and their Relationship with Occupational Accidents in Greek Army Personnel
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作者：Maria MALLIAROU ; Panagiota SOURTZI ; Theodoros C. CONSTANTINIDIS 等
期刊名称：Balkan Military Medical Review
电子版ISSN：1107-6275
出版年度：2011
卷号：14
期号：1
页码：38-52
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出版社：International Medical Journal Management and Indexing System
摘要：Background: Injuries are important in terms of loss of time from work and training and decreased military readiness. Injuries are the leading cause of death, hospitalizations, disabilities, outpatient visits, and manpower losses in the military. Despite tremendous progress over the past decades, injuries remain the greatest health problem for members of the Greek Armed Forces. Aim: The aim of this epidemiological study was to estimate size of the injury problem and identify risk factors of accidents at work in Greek Armed Forces. Method: This is a case-control study. The participants were military personnel of Evros perfecture. Cases (Î=250) were defined as enlisted personnel having had an accident at work. The control (Î=300) series comprised of a simple random sample, stratified by age from the army population. The analysis was limited in those events within the injury event and included the injuries that happened during: (1) schemes and exercises, (2) scheduled training, (3) on-duty. Demographic variables examined in this analysis were age, education and military grade. The analysis was made with SPSS 17. Results: Although the occupational duties performed by military personnel predispose them to risk factors such as intense physical activity, use of heavy machinery and vehicles, dangerous environments, and harmful substances, the leading cause of injury was falls, causing the most lost workdays i.e. 1.115 hospitalization days and 4.500 sick days. Fractures accounted for the highest number of lost duty days. Professional status (p
关键词：military personnel; injuries; epidemiology; occupational risk