According to current data from the health insurance company AOK, sick leave has reached a record level in the south-west. Most of the failures last year were due to respiratory diseases.
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08/11/2023 – 06:22 am
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The health insurance company AOK, like the DAK and TK before it, reported a record number of sick leave last year. As the largest health insurance company in Baden-Württemberg, AOK counted around 49 million days in 2022 with just over 2.7 million working insured persons on which insured persons were unable to work (AU) due to sick leave. In the previous year, around 2.6 million insured persons lost almost 38 million days. According to the AOK, there were an average of around 18 sick days per employed member, compared to around 14.5 the year before.
“In 2022 we had record highs in the number of incapacity to work, which we have collected from our policyholders for over 30 years. Above all, respiratory diseases and sick leave due to Covid-19 are responsible for the sharp increase,” said Christian Konrad, specialist in occupational health management at AOK Baden-Württemberg.
Mainly because of the Omnikron variant and expiring protective measures in 2022, the days of incapacity to work due to a corona infection were many times higher than in the previous year. “Overall, however, these five million days of sick leave only explain half of the overall increase in sick leave days,” said Konrad.
The AOK also presented current figures up to the end of May
At the DAK, too, sick leave in the south-west had reached a record level last year. Every day of the year, 47 out of 1000 employees were on sick leave. This was the result of the evaluation of the data from around 275,000 employed DAK members. The sick leave of 4.7 percent was therefore the highest that the health insurance company has measured since the analysis began in 1997. In 2021 it was 3.3 percent.
The same development at TK last year: the sickness rate among the approximately 600,000 employed TK insured persons in the southwest was 4.37 percent. This corresponds to an increase of 36 percent compared to the previous year and is also well above the previous record from 2015, the health insurance company reported. Sick leave with a diagnosis of respiratory disease was almost exclusively responsible for the massive increase.
According to the DAK, most days lost in the first half of 2023 were caused by respiratory diseases such as colds and bronchitis. As a result, there were 191 days lost per 100 insured persons in the first six months, after 133 in the first half of 2022. There was also an increase in musculoskeletal disorders: the number of days lost per 100 insured persons due to back pain and comparable problems climbed from 112 up to 147 days. There was also a significant increase in mental illness from 100 to 130 days absent.
The AOK also presented current figures up to the end of May. Accordingly, almost as many down days were counted as in the record year 2022. At that time there were around 20.9 million unemployed days in the same period, and 19.4 million in the current year.
2023-08-11 04:57:15
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