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Citation
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Ines Cornelio C, Martha Sapoznik M, Esteban A, Alberto M, Contreras A, Covaro B, Gerke J, Jose Iñiguez M. Occup. Environ. Med. 2014; 71(Suppl 1): A107. |
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Abstract
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OBJECTIVES: To evaluate workers' health outcomes and their association with work organisation (WOF) and violence (WV) factors among sectors of the economy in Argentina.
METHOD: We used data from the first Employment, Working conditions and Health Survey with face-to-face interviews. We selected 7200 sample cases representative of 3 000 000 workers from different economic sectors across Argentina. Multi-stage methods were applied. Sex and age were considered. The dependent variables were: reported work-injuries, occupational disease, health care visits and symptoms from the workers' perspective. Psychosocial factors were classified as: work organisation factors, violence and harassment factors. To determine the association between health outcomes and risk factors, prevalence and Odds Ratios with 95% confidence intervals (OR) were estimated using and Logistic Regression.
RESULTS: Exposed workers to WOF and WV had highest prevalence of injuries (18%, 17% vs. 9 and 11%), diseases (6.6, 7.5% vs. 3.5 y 3.8%) and health care visits, for both WOF and WF respectively (p < 0.001). Related symptoms, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal were more expressed in exposed men, OR 1.20, 1.13-1.26; in women the risk of having symptoms were 2 times more compared to non-exposed ones (OR 2.10; 1.93-2.28). Exposed workers to both factors WOF and WV, increased 2-3 times the risk of having health outcomes.
CONCLUSIONS: Is increasing the evidence of health outcomes related to work organisation factors, therefore, for designing and targeting preventive strategies, and for a comprehensive understanding of health outcomes in the working population, it is necessary to include variables from a psychosocial and gender point of view.
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