Mortality patterns in female domestic workers.
Am J Ind Med
; 21(4): 595-9, 1992.
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| ID: mdl-1580264
ABSTRACT
To investigate mortality patterns for domestic workers, proportional mortality ratios (PMRs) were calculated for the 1,382 female domestic workers who died in British Columbia at age 20 years or over between 1950 and 1984. This group experienced fewer deaths than expected from cerebrovascular accidents (PMR = 84) and hypertension (PMR = 39). The proportion of deaths from cirrhosis was higher than expected (PMR = 152). An excess of observed deaths was also noted for all accidents (PMR = 126), accidents due to environmental factors (PMR = 439), and homicide (PMR = 235). Mortality from pneumonia was elevated for domestic workers aged 20 to 65 (PMR = 180). Further studies using more sophisticated epidemiologic methods are necessary to evaluate whether these deaths are a result of occupational exposures or of poor socioeconomic conditions.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Mortalidade
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Zeladoria
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Am J Ind Med
Ano de publicação:
1992
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Canadá