THE EVALUATION OF THE HEALTH ISSUES OF THE WOMEN WORKING IN A TEXTILE COMPANY-THE EVALUATION OF THE OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH INTERVENTION TARGETS
Abstract:
Objectives:To analyse the health status of a group of female workers , in a textile company, having
as occupation the production of men suits, in order to establish the priorities of the occupational intervention.
Methods: a group of 433 workers were examined and tested, during a 3 years period, and the results were
correlated with the work places (quantified according to the professional exposure to hazards), with the
working environment, and with the personal and genetic features, both physiological and pathological. The
data obtained were analysed statisticaly and we obtained the overall image of the health status of the workers.
Conclusions: the most frequent encountered pathology was the low back pain syndrome and the cervical spine
arthroses, regardless of the age-group and workplace, except for the workers over 50 years old, where the
high blood pressure prevailed and of the under 30 years old workers exposed to warm-humid and dusty
workplaces, where the alergic pathology prevailed.
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