Comparison of temporary disability among workers contingent professional natives and immigrants in Spain, members of the mutual ASEPEYO the year 2009

Introduction
Work-related sickness absence (ITCP in Spanish), caused by an occupational disease or accident, means a major public health problem and working with large socioeconomic and health implications. Immigrants are a group with increased risk of occupational pathology.

Methods
Observational, descriptive and transversal study, based y new ITCP cases (work accident, occupational disease and risk allowance during pregnancy and lactation) initiated in 2009 and followed until its resolution, of the workers belonging to ASEPEYO mutual. Data were compared between natives and immigrants, by sex, age, duration of IT and autonomous community. Immigrants were grouped according to the Human Development Index (HDI) in their country of origin.

Results
A total of 273,292 cases in ITCP ASEPEYO Mutual affiliates were notified, of which 95.7% were occupational accidents. There is predominance of male workers in cases of occupational accidents and occupational diseases, both native (73.4% and 60.8%) and immigrants (75.2% and 55%), with the latter group, a relationship between the proportion of men and the HDI of the country of origin. The duration of the IT work-related accident or occupational disease was in general between 4 and 15 days. Occupational accidents happened mostly inside the workplace, both native and immigrant workers.

Discussion
It is necessary to deepen the causal analysis of accidents in immigrants, describing their characteristics and identifying potential risk factors in order to intensify preventive measures to control it.