According to the health report the health insurance company DAK 2015 was the year with the highest Sick since the age of 16. However, women are more likely than men on sick leave. In addition, there were more sick leave due to mental health symptoms.
Women are more likely to be sick men go less often to the doctor. This is apparent from the published on Tuesday DAK-health report. Overall, women had in the past year, 14 percent more sick days than men. Men, in turn, are written with an average of 12.2 days longer unable to work than women who were absent 11.9 days. The largest differences between the sexes, there is in the case of depression, cancer, and heart disease.
The statutory health insurance, DAK has evaluated the data of about 2.7 million Insured. In addition, the Forsa Institute surveyed more than 5,000 women and men aged between 18 and 65 years of age. Consequently, in the last year, with 4.1 per cent, the highest Sick since the age of 16. Every day of the year, 41 out of 1,000 workers were on average on sick leave.
More days of absence due to mental disorders
Not only is the flu wave may have pushed the Sick-to the top, said DAK CEO Herbert Rebscher. The cause of the steady increase, also increasing were sick leave due to disorders of the Psyche and the muscle-skeletal system. The Report shows Rebscher, according to also, "the much-quoted difference between women and men is much greater than gedacht".
Women had, for example, because of cancer, 74 percent of the disease more days of absence. Although the risk of disease for women and men is a total of the same. Cancer affects men mostly in the higher age of about 60 years. Prostate cancer is common in them most. In women breast cancer occurs primarily of the life, but mostly already in employment.
Heart disease in men
Men were missing, however, is much more often due to cardiovascular diseases in the Job than women (65 per cent more days of absence). Between 45 and 64 years, every tenth man ill almost of coronary heart disease. Men also had because of injuries, almost twice as many days of absence.
Women were missing, however, significantly more likely to be due to mental illness than men (67 per cent more days of absence). Especially of depression, they were affected far more frequently. Every eleventh woman got in the past year, a prescription for antidepressants, but only every twentieth man.
Women go more often to the doctor
Plays a role that women go more often to the doctor and to the Pension. Working men were an average of 4.2 Times a year to the doctor. Working women were seven Times in the practices. Women are also often in Occupations in which they, for example, with a heavy cold not to work can go, because they have customers – or patients contacts.
Also pregnancy complications have an impact on the Sickness. Across all age groups, they are, according to the Report, for at least twelve per cent of the difference in Sick leave between women and men. In addition, the child care acts: More than every fourth woman (27%) says that she has reported the case of a disease of the child itself sick. In the case of men, there were only 17.5 percent.