Can Periodical Examinations of Employees Be Useful in Detection of Glycaemia Impairment and Improving Patients’ Adherence to Medical Recommendations?

Andrzej Marcinkiewicz, Wojciech Hanke, Paweł Kałużny, Agnieszka Lipińska-Ojrzanowska, Marta Wiszniewska and Jolanta Walusiak-Skorupa
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Andrzej Marcinkiewicz: Department of Occupational Diseases and Environmental Health, Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, 91-348 Łódź, Poland
Wojciech Hanke: Department of Environmental Epidemiology, Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, 91-348 Łódź, Poland
Paweł Kałużny: Department of Environmental Epidemiology, Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, 91-348 Łódź, Poland
Agnieszka Lipińska-Ojrzanowska: Department of Occupational Diseases and Environmental Health, Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, 91-348 Łódź, Poland
Marta Wiszniewska: Department of Occupational Diseases and Environmental Health, Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, 91-348 Łódź, Poland
Jolanta Walusiak-Skorupa: Department of Occupational Diseases and Environmental Health, Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, 91-348 Łódź, Poland

IJERPH, 2018, vol. 15, issue 4, 1-9

Abstract: Worldwide epidemiological data indicates insufficient diagnosis of diabetes as an increasing public health problem. In the search for solutions to this disadvantageous situation, occupational medicine health services seem to open up a unique opportunity to recognize some abnormalities in the early stages, especially among the asymptomatic working-age population. 316 workers underwent obligatory prophylactic examinations. In patients with twice assayed FGL ≥ 126 mg/dL (7.0 mmol/L) an additional intervention was implemented, including further diagnostic processes and therapy in General Practice (GP), followed by examination by an occupational health specialist within 3 months. The diagnosis of previously unknown diabetes was established among 2.5% of examined workers. All patients referred to the GP due to detected glycaemia impairment visited their doctor and finished the diagnostic process, took up therapy constrained by the occupational health physician to show the effects of intervention within 3 months. Prophylactic medical check-ups allow improved compliance and medical surveillance over glycaemia impairment in patients with prediabetes states, unknown diabetes or uncontrolled clinical course of diabetes. Considering fasting glucose level during mandatory prophylactic examination helps effective prevention of diabetes and its complications and thus provides public health system benefits.

Keywords: occupational health; diabetes; glycaemia impairment; impaired fasting glucose; adherence; compliance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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