A Review of Epidemiological Studies in Latin American Fishing

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Background: The article is based on a review and follow-up of the citations of 13 epidemiological studies that aimed to improve maritime health and safety. While it's well-recognised that epidemiology is needed in occupational health and safety, the main research question: "How can epidemiology help workers to return healthy from the sea" was unanswered. Materials and methods: The 13 articles were selected as a representative sample of different epidemiological design studies intended to contribute to improving safety management in fishing, merchant shipping and offshore industry. The PubMed, Research Gate, Cochrane-Library and Google Scholar were searched for authors that had cited our articles by using full bibliographic information and the results analysed. Results: In all, 213 citation records were identified. After duplicates and records with insufficient information were removed, 123 full-text articles were eligible for evaluation with answers to the research questions: how did other authors use the studies, how has the injury epidemiology been developed, which recommendations are given for new policies and new studies and how can epidemiology help workers return safe and healthy from the sea? Conclusions: The answer to the main research question is yes, epidemiological studies are not only useful but a necessary component by providing the needed evidence for successful prevention programmes.

“…Seen from a global perspective there is an urgent need to help with epidemiology for fishing and aquaculture in the developing countries, e.g. latin american and african countries [50].…”

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Follow-up of citations of maritime epidemiological injury studies

Jensen

Flores²,

Baygi

et al. 2020

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“…Taking into account the discussion recently presented, it is possible to objectify what has been similarly highlighted in other investigations [43][44][45], which is the important relationship between working conditions at sea and health problems at the skin level [45]. For this reason, these aspects have been studied for some time, although this study focuses on the podiatric level.…”

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confidence: 81%

“…For this reason, these aspects have been studied for some time, although this study focuses on the podiatric level. Although there is more research, it has been observed that there is a scarcity of epidemiological studies in Latin America in contrast to other more developed countries [44].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Dermatological diseases in seamen’s lower extremity: a prevalence study

Rego-Pena

Bouza-Prego

Gómez-Muniz

et al. 2021

“…In a review of studies of fishery health research in Latin America, only studies on occupational diseases and no studies of occupational injuries in fishing were found [13]. The lack of studies on occupational injuries in the Latin American fishery with 2-3 million, mainly small-scale fishermen is probably due the absence of register data regarding occupational diseases and injuries in the countries [14].…”

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confidence: 99%

How to calculate incidence rates from proportionate data

Jensen

Flores²,

Bygvraa

et al. 2019

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This paper describes the methodological aspects of calculation of incidence rates from incomplete data in occupational epidemiology. Proportionate measures in epidemiological studies are useful e.g. to describe the proportion of slips, trips and falls compared to other types of injury mechanisms within single age-strata. However, a comparison of proportions of slips, trips and falls among the different age-strata gives no meaning and can hamper the conclusions. Examples of a constructed example and some selected studies show how estimates of incidence rates can be calculated from the proportionate data by applying estimates of denominators available from other information. The calculated examples show how the risks based on the incidence rates in some cases differ from the risks based on the proportionate rates with the consequence of hampering the conclusions and the recommendations for prevention. In some cases the proportionate rates give good estimates of the incidence rates, but in other studies this might cause errors. It is recommended that estimates of the incidence rates should be used, where this is possible, by estimation of the size of the population. The paper is intended to be useful for students and teachers in epidemiology by using the attached Excel training file.