Mishra Sapna
Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala, India.
Indian J Occup Environ Med. 2019 Jan-Apr;23(1):7-14. doi: 10.4103/ijoem.IJOEM_231_18.
E-waste being hazardous in nature demands scientific management thereby protecting and safeguarding the health of the workers. A major chunk of e-waste ends up in informal sectors where crude methods are employed thereby risking the health of workers. The current scoping review, Based on Arksey and O'Malley's framework was done to explore the available literature to summarize the perceived and manifested health problems among informal e-waste workers. A literature search was done in three databases namely PubMed, Web of Science and ScienceDirect between 1/01/2010 and 1/01/2018. All the titles and abstracts were scrutinized to include only those studies on the basis of health symptoms/problems among workers. Health problems, thus explored, were categorized into five broad categories- physical injuries, respiratory, skin, musculoskeletal, and other general health problems. Major factors which could be related to health problems were job designation, age, non-usage of personal protective equipment, exposure to dust, and hazardous chemicals.
电子垃圾本质上具有危险性，需要科学管理，从而保护工人的健康。大部分电子垃圾最终流入非正规部门，那里采用的是粗放的处理方法，从而危及工人的健康。基于阿克西和奥马利的框架进行了本次范围综述，以探索现有文献，总结非正规电子垃圾工人中已察觉到的和已显现的健康问题。在2010年1月1日至2018年1月1日期间，在三个数据库即PubMed、科学网和科学Direct上进行了文献检索。对所有标题和摘要进行了仔细审查，只纳入那些基于工人健康症状/问题的研究。由此探究出的健康问题被分为五大类——身体伤害、呼吸系统、皮肤、肌肉骨骼以及其他一般健康问题。可能与健康问题相关的主要因素有工作岗位、年龄、未使用个人防护装备、接触灰尘和危险化学品。
