Working conditions and female reproductive health

Working conditions and female reproductive health.

I n this issue of World Journal of Pediatrics, Lin and co-workers report an interesting study on the effect of rotating shift work for female employees on childbearing and infant birth weight (page 129). [1] In their study of female workers in a semiconductor factory, they found a significant lower birth rate among women working shifts compared to women on consisting daytime work. Furthermore, ...

Female Reproductive Health and the Environment

<<NOTE TO USER: This module presents several examples of risk factors that affect reproductive health. You can find more detailed information in other modules of the training package that deal with specific risk factors, such as lead, mercury, pesticides, persistent organic pollutants, endocrine disruptors, occupational exposures; or disease outcomes, such as developmental origins of disease, r...

Endocrine disrupters and female reproductive health.

There is growing evidence of the impact of estrogenic contaminants in the environment. Studies have shown that male fish in detergent-contaminated water express female characteristics, turtles are sex-reversed by polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), male frogs exposed to a common herbicide form multiple ovaries, pseudohermaphroditic offspring are produced by polar bears, and seals in contaminated ...

Working conditions of female part-time and full-time teachers in relation to health status.

PURPOSE Teacher's volume of employment and health status are controversially discussed in the current literature. This study focused on female teachers with part-time versus full-time jobs in association with working conditions and health status depending on age. METHOD A sample of 263 part-time and 367 full-time female teachers (average age 46.7 ± 7.8 vs. 46.0 ± 6.3) participated in an occup...

Working conditions and social inequalities in health.