Alagarajan Manoj, Ahmad Absar
Department of Development Studies, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Department of Community Medicine, Manipal Tata Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India.
J Family Med Prim Care. 2022 Jul;11(7):3673-3680. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_2240_21. Epub 2022 Jul 22.
The mining industry has many hazards to which workers are exposed. Despite that, study on health hazards among mine workers are limited in India. Also, there are negligible studies on ex-miners in India. Thus, the present study tried to explore the current levels of self-reported morbidity among mine workers and ex-mine workers in the Karauli district of Rajasthan, India.
This study was a comparative cross-sectional study conducted in the Karauli district of Rajasthan, India. A total of 218 mine workers, 137 ex-mine workers, and 203 non-mine workers were interviewed. An interview-led questionnaire recording the presence of self-reported health problems and demographic information was administered. Self-reported symptoms were classified according to the categories defined in the operational definitions.
Ex-mine workers moved away from mining due to respiratory problems (31%), weakness (24%), and TB (20%). Mine workers and ex-miners have significantly increased prevalence of respiratory-related symptoms and injury at the workplace, vision, and oral health problems than the non-mine workers. The adjusted odds of morbidity conditions such as cough up with blood, shortness of breath, and wheezing were significantly higher among ex-miners than current miners.
This study identified respiratory symptoms, injury, vision loss, hearing loss, and poor oral health for both mine and ex-mine workers. The higher self-reported health problems for symptoms like cough up with blood, shortness of breath, and wheezing were found among ex-miners than current mine workers.
采矿业存在许多工人可能接触到的危害。尽管如此，印度针对矿工健康危害的研究有限。此外，印度关于前矿工的研究也极少。因此，本研究试图探究印度拉贾斯坦邦卡拉uli地区矿工和前矿工自我报告的当前发病水平。
本研究是在印度拉贾斯坦邦卡拉uli地区进行的一项比较横断面研究。共对218名矿工、137名前矿工和203名非矿工进行了访谈。采用一份由访谈主导的问卷，记录自我报告的健康问题和人口统计学信息。自我报告的症状根据操作定义中规定的类别进行分类。
前矿工因呼吸问题（31%）、身体虚弱（24%）和结核病（20%）而离开采矿业。与非矿工相比，矿工和前矿工在与呼吸相关的症状、工作场所受伤、视力和口腔健康问题方面的患病率显著增加。前矿工中咯血、呼吸急促和喘息等发病情况的调整后比值比显著高于现职矿工。
本研究确定了矿工和前矿工均存在呼吸症状、受伤、视力丧失、听力丧失和口腔健康不佳的情况。发现前矿工中咯血、呼吸急促和喘息等症状的自我报告健康问题比现职矿工更高。
