@article{ref1,
title="Workers' health outcomes, work organisation and violence factors. Argentina, 2012",
journal="Occupational and environmental medicine",
year="2014",
author="Ines Cornelio, Cecilia and Martha Sapoznik, Maria and Esteban, Alfredo and Alberto, Marcos and Contreras, Adela and Covaro, Brian and Gerke, Johanna and Jose Iñiguez, Maria",
volume="71",
number="Suppl 1",
pages="A107-A107",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: To evaluate workers' health outcomes and their association with work organisation (WOF) and violence (WV) factors among sectors of the economy in Argentina. <br><br>METHOD: We used data from the first Employment, Working conditions and Health Survey with face-to-face interviews. We selected 7200 sample cases representative of 3 000 000 workers from different economic sectors across Argentina. Multi-stage methods were applied. Sex and age were considered. The dependent variables were: reported work-injuries, occupational disease, health care visits and symptoms from the workers' perspective. Psychosocial factors were classified as: work organisation factors, violence and harassment factors. To determine the association between health outcomes and risk factors, prevalence and Odds Ratios with 95% confidence intervals (OR) were estimated using and Logistic Regression. <br><br>RESULTS: Exposed workers to WOF and WV had highest prevalence of injuries (18%, 17% vs. 9 and 11%), diseases (6.6, 7.5% vs. 3.5 y 3.8%) and health care visits, for both WOF and WF respectively (p < 0.001). Related symptoms, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal were more expressed in exposed men, OR 1.20, 1.13-1.26; in women the risk of having symptoms were 2 times more compared to non-exposed ones (OR 2.10; 1.93-2.28). Exposed workers to both factors WOF and WV, increased 2-3 times the risk of having health outcomes. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Is increasing the evidence of health outcomes related to work organisation factors, therefore, for designing and targeting preventive strategies, and for a comprehensive understanding of health outcomes in the working population, it is necessary to include variables from a psychosocial and gender point of view.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1351-0711",
doi="10.1136/oemed-2014-102362.337",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/oemed-2014-102362.337"
}