@article{ref1,
title="Injuries in marginal workers and social trauma in female: important cause of the paradigm shift in eye injury over a decade",
journal="Indian journal of occupational and environmental medicine",
year="2015",
author="Chowdhury, Sanjoy",
volume="19",
number="1",
pages="36-43",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Changing profile of work force can give rise different types of injuries. <br><br>PURPOSE: To analyse causative factors (Host-Agent-Event) in ocular trauma over last 15 years. <br><br>METHODS: Hospital based prospective study during 1997-2012. Detailed information on nature of trauma; agent and setting were recorded. <br><br>RESULTS: Cohort included 12365 eye injuries, 1241 serious cases. Prevalence - 0.45 /10000 Mean age 45.8 with bi- modal pattern of incidence, 3:1 male-female ratio. 80% closed globe, 48% workplace injury (90% in marginal labourers with an exponential annual increase). 10% cases from garage mechanics.60% of eye injuries in female were related to &quot;social violence&quot;. Multivariate analysis has detected new causative agents. <br><br>CONCLUSION: Significant change in parameters of trauma (Host-Agent-Event) is resulting in paradigm shift in eye injury. Unorganised unaccustomed labour in workplace injury and &quot;social trauma&quot; in females has become an important cause of eye injury.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0973-2284",
doi="10.4103/0019-5278.157006",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5278.157006"
}