Abstract
Abstract
Traffic is one of the most important economic branches here. Physically and psychologically healthy driver is an important factor for traffic safety. Bus driver´s work place is limited to a small space and work consists of sitting on mostly uncomfortable seats. The drivers are exposed to unpleasant microclimatic factors, noise, vibrations, exhaust gases and often stress situations.
Work aim is the analysis of chronic morbidity and presence of work related diseases with bus drivers.
The group of 169 bus drivers was examined. Data from periodical driver examinations and data from general medicine charts was used. Control group consists of 65 mechanics. All data was processed using the statistical program SPSS. General morbidity rate in the basic group is 85.8%. The most common diseases with bus drivers are bone-muscle system diseases with 24.8%. On the second place are the cardiovascular diseases (22.7%). The third place take up psychological disorders (21.4%), which are statistically significantly more frequent compared to the control group (p<0.05).
Leading disease with drivers is the lumbal syndrome (16.6%). On the second place are the neuroses (15.4%), which are significantly more frequent compared to the control group (p<0.05). On the third place is the arterial hypertension (8.3%). On the fourth place are ulcus ventriculi and ulcus duodeni (5.3%). On the fifth place are eye refraction anomalies (4.7%).
Four leading diagnoses for bus drivers are from the work related disease groups. It can be concluded that: lumbago, neurosis, hypertension et ulcus ventriculi and duodeni are dominant diseases in the specific morbidity bus drivers.
Keywords: chronic morbidity, bus, driver, work.