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Title: Reasons for ill health retirement at the Valleta dockyard, Malta 1975-1989
Authors: Williams, A. N.
Keywords: Navy-yards and naval stations -- Malta
Disability retirement -- Malta
Retirement -- Statistics
Issue Date: 1994-12
Publisher: Malta College of Family Doctors
Citation: Williams, A. N. (1994). Reasons for ill health retirement at the Valleta dockyard, Malta 1975-1989. It-Tabib tal-Familja, 7, 23-27.
Abstract: The 'reasons for ill health retirement ("boarding out") for employees of the Malta Drydocks Corporation were examined from 1975 up to the end of 1989. The purpose of this research was to see whether there had been any dramatic changes in the importance of different pathologies as seen in similar British industrial units over a similar period. During this period 462 retirements were noted in Valletta, cardiovascular and locomotor pathologies being the main causes of boarding out. However, differences from similar British Units were seen especially with respect to diabetes and visual and psychiatric problems, which were great in the Valletta dockyards. There are many cultural and occupational reasons for this as well as the fact that the results would be influenced by the retirement age in Malta being 61 years of age.
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/22974
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