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Figure 33: People reporting a work -related health problem and People reporting a work -related health 
problem causing daily limitations 2020 – LFS Ad hoc module 2020  
 
  
These responses are probably very much influenced by occupational, sector and country -specific 
cultures of defining and expressing a health problem and a different opinion on the job. It is clearly 
not realistic that workers in Poland or Sweden suffer 10 times more often from a work -related health 
problem than workers in Ireland or Romania. Suppression or resistance to express a health problem 
might be one cause for such low figures for countries with a high degree of manual work, be it highly or 
low skilled.258 It might also be that a high awareness of health issues — not only caused by the risk but 
also by the necessary prevention measures — results in high response values for both questions, that 
is, high awareness of risks might be the cause for well -developed prevention measures and