Bener Abdulbari
Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Department of Evidence for Population Health Unit, School of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Int J Prev Med. 2017 Sep 6;8:68. doi: 10.4103/ijpvm.IJPVM_396_16. eCollection 2017.
BACKGROUND: Very little research and survey have been performed on the occupational health, hazards, and working condition of urban and rural of workers in Qatar. The aim of the current study is to identify the health status, lifestyle condition, working-related problems, and accidents experienced by Indian subcontinental migrants (ISCM) in Qatar and their access to health-care facilities. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study based on a representative sample of 1186 workers and study covering sociodemographic characteristics, medical conditions, and health-seeking behaviors and personal experience. RESULTS: There were statistically significant differences between semi-urban and urban migrant workers in terms of educational, occupation, income, working hours, and accommodation type ( < 0.001). Furthermore, there were statistically significant differences between migrant workers in terms of body mass index, delay in receiving salary, the right to medical insurance and sick day entitlement, cigarettes and shisha smoking, amenities, having on-site safety measure, and sleeping hours ( < 0.01). Moreover, there were statistically significant differences between semi-urban and urban migrant workers in terms of pain, cardiopulmonary, gastrointestinal, and pseudoneurologic and medical symptoms ( < 0.01). Multiple logistic regression was used for predictors' health problems in migrant workers such as the absence of drinking water, tap water availability, safety facility tools, occupational status, shisha smoking, toilet facility, working hours, and accommodation type were considered the strong predictors. CONCLUSIONS: The current study revealed that there is a lack of insufficient information for the migrants about their lifestyle, medical conditions, health risks, injury, and rights privilege in relation to legal working condition and health services.
背景:针对卡塔尔城乡工人的职业健康、危害及工作条件,所开展的研究和调查极少。本研究的目的是确定卡塔尔印度次大陆移民(ISCM)的健康状况、生活方式状况、与工作相关的问题及经历的事故,以及他们获得医疗保健设施的情况。 方法:这是一项横断面研究,基于1186名工人的代表性样本,涵盖社会人口学特征、医疗状况、就医行为及个人经历。 结果:半城市和城市移民工人在教育程度、职业、收入、工作时长及住宿类型方面存在统计学显著差异(<0.001)。此外,移民工人在体重指数、工资延迟发放、医疗保险权和病假权利、吸烟和水烟吸食、便利设施、是否有安全措施以及睡眠时间方面存在统计学显著差异(<0.01)。而且,半城市和城市移民工人在疼痛、心肺、胃肠道、假性神经及医学症状方面存在统计学显著差异(<0.01)。多元逻辑回归用于分析移民工人健康问题的预测因素,诸如是否有饮用水、自来水供应、安全设施工具、职业状况、水烟吸食、厕所设施、工作时长及住宿类型被视为强预测因素。 结论:当前研究表明,移民在生活方式、医疗状况、健康风险、伤害以及与合法工作条件和健康服务相关的权利特权方面缺乏足够信息。
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