Valoración de los programas de prevención de accidentes en relación con el grado de dependencia

Abstract

Objective: determine if having received courses of prevention of accidents decrease the risk of suffering them, as well as the impact of them. Data: the Survey of Disabilities, Autonomy and situations of dependency (INE, 2008) indicates if the respondent has suffered an accident during last year, has receivied prevention courses and the age of onset of each one of the disabilities suffered. This allow us to apply the Ranking Scale of Dependency to the situation one year ago and at the moment of the survey. Methodology: we estimate a double sample selection model for the probability of receiving courses of prevention of accidents and the incidence of them (N =3.678.988 observations; age from 20 to +85 years). Results: among those who have not received training, people with atrhritis/arthrosis, depression, cataracts, rheumatoid arthritis and myocardial infarction. The probability of suffering an accident conditioned on not having received prevention increases with dependency degree (from 9% for moderate dependent to 53% for high dependent). Having received prevention courses decreases the probabilty of accidents among high dependent people by 19%. Conclusions: conditioned on having suffered an accident during last year, the dependency degree is less serious among those who have received training. Prevention courses are asigned efficiently because conditioned on not having suffered an accident, individuals with a higher dependency degree are more prone to have received this type of training.