J Korean Diabetes.  2018 Mar;19(1):53-57. 10.4093/jkd.2018.19.1.53.

Diabetes, Returning to Work, and Your Rights for Health

• Park YJ

• KMID: 2408659
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4093/jkd.2018.19.1.53

Abstract

Diabetes sufferers in their 30s to 50s are at an age must maintain their income-producing activities while also managing their health; however, maintaining this balance is not always easy due to their disease. Patients in their 30s to 50s who are actively engaged in work life may not experience workplace difficulties when their diagnosis is known and can be addressed with health-promoting behaviors or passive management. Patients have limitations in implementing the active self-management required by the educational scene in-house. The reason is because the working environment in Korea has not yet established a proper perception of diabetes and feels that allowing diabetes to manage diseases against fairness. The educators proudly reveal themselves as diabetes and cannot take into consideration or take responsibility the disadvantages they can experience when returning to work, we must consider what the patient "has to do to get back to work." In addition, patients should think about how to manage their disease effectively through more than just a passive response. Moreover the Korean Diabetes Association should establish guidelines for the areas that need to be protected legally and on the defensive aspects that need to be better perceived.

Keyword

Diabetes in 30s to 50s; Health-promoting behavior; Return to work; Self care

MeSH Terms

Diagnosis
Humans
Korea
Return to Work
Self Care

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