Management of Occupational Risk to Reproduction in a Danish County
| Autor: | Anni L. Larsen, Anders I. Larsen, Inger Schaumburg |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
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Risk analysis
medicine.medical_specialty Denmark 050109 social psychology Occupational safety and health Danish Occupational medicine 03 medical and health sciences Pregnancy Risk Factors Occupational Exposure Environmental health medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Maternal Behavior Occupational Health Response rate (survey) 030505 public health business.industry Public health 05 social sciences Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health medicine.disease language.human_language Pregnancy Complications Work (electrical) language Female Maximum Allowable Concentration 0305 other medical science business Attitude to Health Women Working |
| Zdroj: | Scandinavian Journal of Social Medicine. 20:25-30 |
| ISSN: | 0300-8037 |
| Popis: | In Denmark pregnant women are entitled to receive maintenance allowances if the working conditions are suspected to be harmful to the fetus. The aim of the study was to evaluate these preventive measures taken to reduce occupational hazards to reproduction in Denmark. In 1985 1,247 pregnancies were identified in Ribe county during a 6-month period. Three hundred and fortyfive women employed at the beginning of the pregnancy in manufacturing industries, construction work, health services, or agriculture were interviewed by telephone concerning their working conditions and the measures taken to reduce possible occupational risks. The response rate was 85%. On the basis of the interviews the risks and the preventive measures were assessed. Out of 200 women who had no changes in the working conditions during pregnancy, 46 (23%) had a working situation which was considered potentially harmful. For 57 the working situation was changed during the first months of pregnancy because of an assumed risk. The remaining 37 were out of work or received maintenance allowances because of occupational hazards. In this study a greater awareness than expected about possible occupational risks was found, but in some instances occupational risks were overlooked or neglected. |
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