scientific outputs regarding occupational health among female workers

Authors

maryam nikpour phd student of social determinants of health research center, health research institute, babol university of medical sciences, babol, iran

mozhgan firouzbakht

aram tirgar social determinants of health research center, health research institute, babol university of medical sciences, babol, iran

abstract

original article   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.

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international journal of occupational hygiene

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