Department of Public and Occupational Health, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam (Mr van der Wurf, Dr Schaafsma, Dr Coenen); Arbo Unie, Occupational Health Service, Utrecht (Dr Speklé), The Netherlands.
J Occup Environ Med. 2021 Jun 1;63(6):e367-e372. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000002221.
To investigate the costs of low-back pain associated sick leave of workers in the Netherlands from 2015 to 2017.
We used longitudinal data form a large occupational health service regarding sick leave (registered by occupational physicians). Costs of sick leave due to low-back pain were estimated using the human capital approach, considering society and company perspectives.
A total of 7901 low-back pain episodes from 7161 unique workers were analyzed. We estimated an average episode of low-back pain sick leave was 129.42 days in duration and costed €16,191. The total extrapolated sick leave costs were estimated to be €244.7 million in 2017.
Low-back pain remains to be a persistent problem in the working population, as it causes workers to take sick leave for considerable periods of time with considerable associated economic consequences.
调查 2015 年至 2017 年荷兰与下背痛相关的工人病假成本。
我们使用大型职业健康服务机构关于病假的纵向数据（由职业医生登记）。使用人力资本方法估算因下背痛导致的病假成本，同时考虑社会和公司两个角度。
分析了 7161 名独特工人的 7901 次下背痛发作。我们估计每次下背痛的平均病假持续时间为 129.42 天，成本为 16191 欧元。2017 年，预计总病假成本为 2.447 亿欧元。
下背痛仍然是工作人群中的一个持续存在的问题，因为它导致工人请病假的时间相当长，并且带来了相当大的经济后果。
