Invalidity retirement and aid-accident: Analysis of the impact of ophthalmologic causes

1. Carla Albertina Martins Almeida¹
2. Jorge Luiz Ramos Teixeira²

¹Instituto da Visão, Campo Grande, Brasil
²Faculdade São Camilo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Purpose: National Institute of Social Insurance (INSS) is the responsible agency for granting and maintenance of essential benefits to workers who are affected by various diseases which may lead to disability or limiting their activities. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the concessions of retirements for decurrent Invalidity and aid-accident of ocular alterations in the management Campo Grande, MS, Brasil, the years of 2007 and 2008.

Methods: Retrospective study was become fulfilled, of the concessions of retirement for invalidity and the concessions of Aid-Accident, in the years of 2007 and 2008, in the management of disability benefits, of the INSS, in Campo Grande, MS, Brasil, evaluating itself: sex, CIDs and ophthalmologic causes of concession.

Results: The ocular illnesses had been responsible for 3,51% of the retirements in studied period and 5.11% of the concessions of Aid-Accident. It in such a way had significant predominance of the masculine sex in the concessions of aid-accident (p<0,01), as well as retirement for invalidity (p<0,001). Aid-accident had been mainly granted for upheavals of the ocular globe (42.90%) and the retirements for invalidity had been for decrease vision and blindness with 46,81%, followed of glaucomas and retinal diseases with 21,28% and 20,21% respectively.

Conclusions: Optimum knowledge of the ophthalmologic causes of invalidity and retirement can assist in the choice of writs of prevention.