ABSTRACT
The utilization of Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs), provides a comprehensive assessment of the health of the insured workers. We report here on the estimation of DALYs lost due to injuries in our insured population. The study population consisted of 1.406.843 insured workers of Asociación Chilena de Seguridad: 910.932 males and 495.902 females. There were 165.494 work related injuries with an overall annual incidence of 117.6 injuries per 1.00 workers. The age group that accounted for the highest injury rate in males was the 15-29 year old age group (104.2 per 1.000 workers). The main cuses of injuries in both sexes were Exposure to Inanimate Mechanical Forces (53.6 percent) and Falls (29.6 percent). 132 died in the study year from injuries sustained at work, an occupational fatal injury rate of 9.4 per 1000.000 (13.9 in males vs 1.0 in females). male workers had a workplace mortality rate 13.8 times the rate of female workers. In the year 2000, the 110.073 work-related injuries accounted by 4.450 Disability Adjusted Life years lost. This figure represents a loss of 316 DALY per 1000.000 workers: the DALY rate ratio of male to female was 8.5. There were 3.965 Years of Life Lost due to Premature Mortality in our insured population