Medical accessibility and underreporting of occupational diseases: effect of travel distance and travel time

Medical accessibility and underreporting of occupational diseases: effect of travel distance and travel time

ObjectivesUnderreporting of occupational diseases (ODs) could be attributed to poor medical accessibility, which is rarely discussed previously. Our cross-sectional study aims to evaluate how OD reporting is impeded by long travel distance/time (TD/TT) to the nearest major occupational medicine clin...

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Main Authors:	Ping Hui Chen, Po-Ching Chu, Ching-Chun Huang, Chi-Hsien Chen, Yue Leon Guo, Ta-Chen Su, Pau-Chung Chen
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2025-04-01
Series:	Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences
Subjects:	occupational disease GIS geographic information system medical accessibility underreporting IRR
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fresc.2025.1545460/full
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