abstract: 'Background: External-cause mortality is an important public health issue

  worldwide. Considering its significance to workers'' health and

  inequalities across industries, we aimed to describe the state of

  external-cause mortality and investigate its difference by industry in

  Republic of Korea based on data for 2018.Methods: Data obtained from the

  Statistics Korea and Korean Employment Information System were used.

  External causes of death were divided into three categories (suicide,

  transport accident, and others), and death occurred during employment

  period or within 90 days after unemployment was regarded as workers''

  death. We calculated age-and sex-standardized mortalities per 100,000,

  standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) compared to the general population

  and total workers, and mortality rate ratios (RRs) across industries

  using information and communication as a reference. Correlation analyses

  between income, education, and mortality were conducted.Results: Age-and

  sex-standardized external-cause mortality per 100,000 in all workers was

  29.4 (suicide: 16.2, transport accident: 6.6, others: 6.6). Compared to

  the general population, all external-cause and suicide SMRs were

  significantly lower; however, there was no significant difference in

  transport accidents. When compared to total workers, wholesale,

  transportation, and business facilities management showed higher SMR for

  suicide, and agriculture, forestry, and fishing, mining and quarrying,

  construction, transportation and storage, and public administration and

  defense showed higher SMR for transport accidents. A moderate to strong

  negative correlation was observed between education level and mortality

  (both age-and sex-standardized mortality rates and SMR compared to the

  general population).Conclusion: Inequalities in external-cause

  mortalities from suicide, transport accidents, and other causes were

  found. For reducing the differences, improved policies are needed for

  industries with higher mortalities.(c) 2021 Occupational Safety and

  Health Research Institute, Published by Elsevier Korea LLC. This is an

  open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license

  (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).'
affiliation: 'Jeong, I (Corresponding Author), Ajou Univ, Dept Occupat \& Environm
  Med, Sch Med, 164 World Cup Ro, Suwon 16499, South Korea.

  Lim, Jiyoung; Ko, Kwon; Park, Jae Bum; Jeong, Inchul, Ajou Univ Hosp, Dept Occupat
  \& Environm Med, Suwon, South Korea.

  Lee, Kyung Eun, Korea Occupat Safety \& Hlth Agcy, Dept Epidemiol Invest, Occupat
  Safety \& Hlth Res Inst, Ulsan, South Korea.

  Park, Jae Bum; Lee, Seungho; Jeong, Inchul, Ajou Univ, Dept Occupat \& Environm
  Med, Sch Med, 164 World Cup Ro, Suwon 16499, South Korea.'
author: Lim, Jiyoung and Ko, Kwon and Lee, Kyung Eun and Park, Jae Bum and Lee, Seungho
  and Jeong, Inchul
author-email: icjeong0101@aumc.ac.kr
author_list:
- family: Lim
  given: Jiyoung
- family: Ko
  given: Kwon
- family: Lee
  given: Kyung Eun
- family: Park
  given: Jae Bum
- family: Lee
  given: Seungho
- family: Jeong
  given: Inchul
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.shaw.2021.12.001
earlyaccessdate: MAR 2022
eissn: 2093-7997
files: []
issn: 2093-7911
journal: SAFETY AND HEALTH AT WORK
keywords: External-cause death; Health inequality; Industry; Injury; Suicide
keywords-plus: 'WORK-RELATED INJURIES; SUICIDAL IDEATION; DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS;

  EMPLOYMENT STATUS; UNITED-STATES; JAPANESE MEN; RISK-FACTORS;

  UNEMPLOYMENT; OCCUPATION'
language: English
month: MAR
number: '1'
number-of-cited-references: '37'
orcid-numbers: 'LEE, KYUNG-EUN/0000-0001-5112-7747

  Lee, Seungho/0000-0001-7069-267X

  Ko, Kwon/0000-0001-7677-4502'
pages: 117-125
papis_id: ef107135bd9b4c28fc91f14dd4259431
ref: Lim2022inequalitiesexternal
times-cited: '0'
title: Inequalities in External-Cause Mortality in 2018 across Industries in Republic
  of Korea
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000791702000018
usage-count-last-180-days: '2'
usage-count-since-2013: '6'
volume: '13'
web-of-science-categories: Public, Environmental \& Occupational Health
year: '2022'