The effects of occupational exposures on the health status-----a cohort study of hairdressers and beauticians

• Main Authors: Chiu-Yung Hsiu, 邱顒秀
• Other Authors: 馬作鏹
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/30360424170780348030

碩士 === 中國醫藥大學 === 醫務管理學研究所碩士班 === 94 === This study was to use a cohort data of 154,744 hairdressers and 162,584 beauticians provided by Taiwan Labor Department to reach the following aims: 1) to establish a comprehensive data source providing health-related information on eight kind selected skillful workers with professional certifications; 2) to describe the demographic features and the types of work-related injury, disability and disease; 3) to explore the relative occurrence of diagnostic diseases and cancers in the cohort of eight kind selected skillful workers with the comparison to the general populations by identifying the indicators of the Standardized Incidence Ratios (SIRs), the Standardized Mortality Ratios (SMRs), and prevalent rates of hospitalization. Hairdressers (144729) were at greater risk than the general female population for having the cancer: haematopoietic (13.00) , digestive organs and peritoneum(1.31), genital organs(1.28), other and site unspecified(1.21) ,lip, oral cavity and pharynx(1.12) , breast (1.09),respiratory and intrahoracic organs(1.04)。 Beauticians(154763) were at greater risk than the general female population for having the cancer: haematopoietic(3.59). The statistical results for analyzing prevalent diseases and the work-related injury among workers showed that for most of the workers the prevalent disease was acute upper respiratory infections, most injured body part was the fingers, and the major death cause was traffic accidents happened on the way home or workplace. The exceptions were that the most injured body part was the head for boiler-operating workers and the major work-related death cause was drowned for divers. The results in this study provided empirical evidence to support that workers with professional certifications comparing to general populations indeed have higher chances to have cancers.