Health disparities among occupations in Taiwan: a population study

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• Personal Author:
  Chen F-L ; Chen PY
• Description:
  OBJECTIVES: The first large-scale population survey was conducted in Taiwan to examine if and to what extent health disparities of four major chronic physical conditions exist among occupations. METHODS: Face-to-face interviews about two risk behaviors (i.e., cigarette and alcohol use) and four major chronic physical conditions (i.e., cardiovascular disease, diabetes, liver disease and asthma) were conducted with 13,741 workers from nine major categories of occupations. RESULTS: Health disparities among occupations were found based on a series of hierarchical logistic regression analyses after controlling for age, sex and two risk behaviors. In general, prevalence rates of cardiovascular disease among elementary occupations and skilled agricultural and fishery workers were approximately two to four times higher than those among other occupations. The above two occupations and plant and machine operators also had higher prevalence rates in diabetes and liver disease. CONCLUSIONS: The results concerning health disparities among occupations provide policymakers and researchers with invaluable benchmarks of chronic physical conditions among occupations. The findings also suggest the importance of investigating causal relationship between these diseases and exposures at work, identifying and reducing unique risk factors and hazard exposures experienced by workers and conducting targeted surveillance and health promotion programs for at-risk occupations. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Alcoholic Beverages Asthma Asthma, Occupational Behavior Blood Cardiovascular Diseases Cardiovascular System Delivery Of Health Care Demography Digestive System Epidemiology Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Hematologic Diseases Hunting Liver Lung Diseases Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Respiratory Tract Diseases Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Smokers Surveys And Questionnaires Tobacco Products

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• Keywords:
  Agricultural-workers Alcoholic-beverages Author Keywords: Health Disparity Blood-sugar-disorders Bronchial-asthma Cardiovascular-disease Cardiovascular-system-disease Cigarette-smoking Demographic-characteristics Fishing-industry Health-care Health-surveys Liver-disorders Liver-function Lung-disorders Machine-operators Medical-care Medical-services Occupation Occupations Physical-capacity Pulmonary-system-disorders Respiratory-system-disorders Risk-factors Smoking Statistical-analysis Taiwan Worker-health

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• ISSN:
  1341-9145
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; OSHA Region 8
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  147-153
• Volume:
  54
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20041615
• Citation:
  J Occup Health 2012 Feb; 54(2):147-153
• Contact Point Address:
  P. Y. Chen, International Graduate School of Business, City West Campus, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia
• Email:
  peter.chen@unisa.edu.au
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2012
• Performing Organization:
  University of Colorado, Denver
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20070701
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Occupational Health
• End Date:
  20250630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:590a170f77a8cbf05bd2c221c5092aaac2c5936cee518bcd2021cf7dedf487a1a832141a26e8143e5afc9549db73efd829834b4b94cf13b8def51d1b7b9926f7
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/194125/cdc_194125_DS1.pdf
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