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Disability Caused by Occupational Accidents in the Spanish Long-Term Care System

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Soft Computing in Management and Business Economics

Part of the book series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing ((STUDFUZZ,volume 287))

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This study assumes that long-term care may be caused by occupational accidents. We quantify the number of disabled individuals that qualify to receive public funds in the context of the Spanish Long-Term Care System, for those individuals whose need of support is caused by an injury related to working activities. Using data from a Spanish Survey we also estimate the number of workers by age and severity level.

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    Ramón Alemany, Catalina Bolancé & Montserrat Guillén

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Alemany, R., Bolancé, C., Guillén, M. (2012). Disability Caused by Occupational Accidents in the Spanish Long-Term Care System. In: Gil-Lafuente, A., Gil-Lafuente, J., Merigó-Lindahl, J. (eds) Soft Computing in Management and Business Economics. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 287. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30451-4_12

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