Impact de l’asthme sur le travail : une revue de la littérature

Abstract

Asthma is a very common disease affecting young people in the age of working and therefore represents one of the leading diseases impacting occupational activity. Health condition of employees suffering from asthma is responsible for work productivity loss, through absenteeism and presenteeism, resulting among other things in significant indirect costs. Although only 10% of workers with asthma report asthma-related missing days of work throughout their live, mostly evoke a presenteeism (work attendance whereas work absence would be justified by health status). Severity and even more asthma control are the major determinants of asthma impact on work productivity. Improving asthma control through proper treatment leads to improved work productivity and reduced asthma-related costs. In severe asthma, biologics seem to reduce absenteeism but there is limited data about their effect on presenteeism.