Bibliographic citations
Ortiz, O., (2023). Evaluación del menoscabo por enfermedades de origen ocupacional respiratorio. Revisión sistemática y oportunidades en el marco técnico y normativo peruano [Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/14868
Ortiz, O., Evaluación del menoscabo por enfermedades de origen ocupacional respiratorio. Revisión sistemática y oportunidades en el marco técnico y normativo peruano []. PE: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia; 2023. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/14868
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title = "Evaluación del menoscabo por enfermedades de origen ocupacional respiratorio. Revisión sistemática y oportunidades en el marco técnico y normativo peruano",
author = "Ortiz Trigoso, Oswaldo",
publisher = "Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia",
year = "2023"
}
The respiratory impairment has a strong negative impact in the individual and the prevalence of disability in the society, and an important fraction is attributable to occupational exposures. The occupational respiratory diseases rank second in Peru. This study aimed to establish those impaiment assessment practices in the medical literature that benefit the worker’s health, the employer or the society, and to identify gaps and opportunities for the Peruvian technical and regulatory framework. Design: systematic review. Methods and material: MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane Lybrary, ScieLo, Redalyc y Google Scholar were searched for studies between 1983 and 2023 that assessed the impairment of occupational respiratory diseases longitudinally or by comparison between groups and that included a measure of parameters indicative of benefit in any of multiple dimensions. A search in the Peruvian government public institution’s websites was then conducted to establish the tecnical and regulatory framework, and gaps and opportunities were identified. Results: 6,723 references were processed and 58 were included, from those 15 were guidelines and expert opinions. The methods among different studies varied considerably and a meta analysis was not possible. The qualitative análisis showed that the methodologies for impairment assessment are not consistently utilized in research limiting their scientific validity. Their benefits have been studied predominantly in relation to worker’s health and compensation, yet scarcely about the employer and society. The Peruvian technical and regulatory framework can improve by unifying the existing systems, involving the primary healthcare level in the impairment assessment with purposes of relocations and readaptation, keeping an approach based on the assessment of individual pathologies and incorporating lacking elements, such as gas exchange and, in the case of asthma, bronchial reactivity, among others. Conclusion: The assessment of the impairment due to occupational respiratory diseases can be improved in the Peruvian technical and regulatory framework with basis in the scientific literature and international references. The methodologies for impaiment assessment, although they utilize evidence-based elements, lack scientific rigour.
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