Tehran University of Medical Sciences
International Journal of Occupational Hygiene
2008-5109
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2015
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Scientific Outputs Regarding Occupational Health among Female Workers
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MARYAM
NIKPOUR
PhD student of Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran
MOZHGAN
FIROUZBAKHT
Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran
ARAM
TIRGAR
Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran
2016
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2016
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Although the International Labor Organization (ILO) has reported that two-thirds of the world’s occupations belong to women, a few studies regarding employed women have been conducted. The present study aimed at conducting survey on scientific outputs regarding women’s occupational health. This cross-sectional study was conducted from 2010 to 2014 at five-year intervals on a number of hygiene-based journals regarding workers’ health at Scimago data center. Surveyed articles were categorized on the basis of type of work-related risk factors, methodologies, types of women jobs. Articles were distributed under the terms of the subjects. Out of 4,197 published papers on 17 subjects related to occupational hygiene indexed by Scimago, 203 papers (4.8%) were allocated to women’s health. With regards to women’s health, health staff had taken the most papers with 37.7%. Most of the studies were cross-sectional and on hazardous chemical agents. Due to low range of articles with the issue of occupational hygiene, it was concluded that occupational hygiene researchers have not focused much attention on this occupational group.
https://ijoh.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijoh/article/view/179
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oss-sectional study was conducted on 244 nurses in Kerman, Iran in 2015. Tools for gathering data were Demographic and Organizational Questionnaires, Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ) and Occupational Accidents Questionnaire. Data was analyzed using SPSS 21 statistical software and descriptive statistics and statistical tests including Pearson correlation, independent t-test and ANOVA. The highest and lowest attitude scores were related to teamwork climate scale (58.9) and perception of management (38%). The stress recognition scale had significant correlations with each of the other scales. Reliability of the questionnaire was high, (α=0.872), and scale reliability ranged from α=0.82 to α=0.908 for the six scales. Chemical splash to eyes, in more than 3 times accident frequencies, had the lowest percentage (1.03%), and exposure to blood or other body fluids, had the highest percentage, (37.11%). There was a significant relationship between exposure to blood or other body fluids and traumatic backache while changing patient’s positions with safety attitude (P<0.05). With regard to the relationship between safety attitude and occupational accidents, managers, by increasing their awareness of safety knowledge, improved incentive system, collaborative management, employee safety and dealing with occupational stress and finding the effective causes of patient safety can develop employees' attitude to safety.
https://ijoh.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijoh/article/view/177
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