Attack Rate and Associated Factors of Intestinal Parasites Infection Among Foreign Workers

• Main Authors: Sung-Chih Tseng, 曾嵩智
• Other Authors: Pesus Chou
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/25618206463432584720

碩士 === 國立陽明大學 === 公共衛生研究所 === 97 === Background In order to meet the pressing human resource needs of employers, Taiwan hire thousands of foreign workers to help address skill and labour shortages every years. Most of the foreign workers are come from Philippine, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam. By the health policy, all foreign workers must complete a health examination before hiring in Taiwan. According to the statistic data from Centers for Disease Control, Taiwan；the highest abnormal health examination result was intestinal parasites infection. Object This study is focus on the analysis of intestinal parasites infection and associated factors of the Southeast Asia foreign workers who had work in Taiwan, base on our health examination data. Matterial and Methods We collected the health examination data of foreign worker who received examination in Lishin hospital , Taiwan from 2006 Jan to 2007 Dec. We included the Southeast Asia foreign workers who had received immigrate and regular health exam in Lishin hospital. Results We collected 9,363 foreign workers in this study. There were 4,415(47.2%) men, and 4,948(52.8%) women. There were 2,018(21.4%) persons from Indonesia, 2,741 (29.3%) from Philippine, 3,067(32.8%) from Thailand and 1,537(16.4%) from. Vietnam The abnormal stool examination rate of regular health exam is 6.5%(611 persons). According to sex, the prevalence rate in male is 4.7%, female 8.2%. The age specified prevalence rate in group younger than 25 years old is the highest.(6.5%). The overweight group has lower abnormal rate(5.6%). According to the country, the prevalence rate in Indonesia is 10.2%(206), 9.1%(109) in Vietnam, 5.8%(159) in Philippine and 4.5%(137) in Thailand. The worker who had abnormal stool data in immigrate health exam has higher abnormal rate(17.5%) in regular health exam. After multiple logistic regression analysis, we found The abnormal stool examination rate of regular health exam is associated with gender, age, nation, BMI, and stool exam data in immigrate health exam. Conclusion This study shows the intestinal parasites infection rate in the foreign workers from Indonesia, female, younger than 25 years old, and had abnormal stool exam in immigrate health exam was higher than others. Our government should pay more attention to prevent parasite infection from Southeast Asia country.