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  • Title: [Vocational rehabilitation of heart patients. An analysis of "vocational rehabilitation cases" closed by the federal employment institute (author's transl)].
    Author: Otto R.
    Journal: Rehabilitation (Stuttg); 1981 Aug; 20(3):133-6. PubMed ID: 7291708.
    Abstract:
    The number of heart/circulatory disease rehabilitation cases closed annually by the Federal Employment Institute has remained almost the same over the 1972-1978 period. In 1978 the national total of closed heart/circulatory disease cases amounted to 6,325, with 945 of the clients having attended vocational rehabilitation measures/courses. Some 25 percent of the cases are classified as "condition following myocardial infarction"; in male clients, this applies to about one third. Compared to the number of male clients, women are strongly under-represented in vocational rehabilitation of heart/circulatory disease patients. In relation to the structure of the gainfully employed population total, the frequency of vocational rehabilitation measures on heart/circulatory disease diagnoses varies strongly among the individual Laender employment office districts. Considerable differences are apparent when the age structure of heart/circulatory disease rehabilitation cases is compared with that of any other disability group. In case of the first, the number of cases increases with age, while the trend is the very opposite in the latter case. This fact shows that vocational rehabilitation measures for heart/circulatory disease patients need come up to special conditions, and that they have to be determined on different criteria. The rate of integrational solutions considered a positive outcome is considerably lower for heart/coronary disease rehabilitees than for the total of rehabilitees. The participation in vocational rehabilitation programmes of 14.9 percent equally is considerably lower than the corresponding percentage of the total number of rehabilitation cases (26.2 percent).
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