Health disparities between immigrant and Danish cleaners

Abstract

Although the health of the cleaners was alarmingly poor, the immigrant cleaners generally had a poorer self-reported health and work ability than the Danish cleaners. These findings highlight the need for occupational health actions among cleaners, particularly tailored to the immigrant subpopulation.

Does aerobic exercise improve or impair cardiorespiratory fitness and health among cleaners? A cluster randomized controlled trial

“…Workers with high levels of occupational physical activity often have a low cardiorespiratory fitness (4,(24)(25)(26) and limited ability for pauses and restitution, which may result in an increased risk of overloading and impairing the cardiovascular system (22). Thus, an aerobic exercise intervention may affect factors for cardiovascular disease both positively and negatively.…”

“…Cleaners' cardiorespiratory fitness has been described as relatively low and consequently a high relative aerobic workload is expected (4,28). Moreover, a high prevalence of other cardiovascular risk factors including hypertension and obesity (25,29), and an overall elevated CVD risk have been reported among cleaners (30,31). Classical interventions have aimed to lower the relative aerobic workload among cleaners through the ergonomic improvement of tools (32)(33)(34).…”

Work Related Neck Pain and Its Associated Factors among Registered Female Nurses Who Are Computer Users in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre

“…All seven variables which associated significantly with neck pain in bivariate analysis by using Chi square test entered in the logistic regression. The significant predictors of neck pain in this model after control of confounders were (30)(31)(32)(33)(34)(35)(36)(37)(38)(39) and (40)(41)(42)(43)(44)(45)(46)(47)(48)(49) …”

“…In bivariate; Chi square analysis, the result of present study indicated that there were seven factors significantly associated with neck pain i.e. age, BMI, physical exercises, night shifts, neck bending, prolonged working hours on computer and personnel shortage.Further analysis, by using multiple logistic regression showed that age groups [30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39]) and [40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49] physical exercises (p= 0.025,, working time on computer (p= 0.029, night shifts (p= 0.001, personnel shortage (p= 0.005, and neck bending (p= 0.013, …”

Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders and the Relationship to Ethnicity

“…MSDs have been extensively studied in several countries; however, few studies have been carried out so as to investigate the relationship between MSDs and ethnicity [4][5][6][7][8][9].…”