Prevention measures and risk factors for COVID-19 in Iranian workplaces

Malekpour, Fatemeh; Ebrahimi, Hossein; Yarahmadi, Rasoul; Mohammadin, Yousef; Moghadam, Seyed Melika Kharghani; Soltanpour, Zahra

doi:10.3233/wor-205045

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“…This increment has various reasons in each country. In Iran, wrong decisions at the national level caused an increased number of gatherings in different places, such as shops, public transportation, banks, government offices, industrial settings, and other similar venues [34,35]. Lack of proper programs for children and the elderly; monopoly on the distribution of essential foods leading to gathering in front of related shops; accumulation in clinics of medical centers and hospitals, medical offices, and private clinics at specific hours; closure of open-air public parks leading to gathering in closed places, lack of affordable face masks; and non-observance of prevention protocols by most people [34] were among the most important reasons of high mortality.…”

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Clustering Countries based on the Trend of COVID-19 Mortality Rates: An Application of Growth Mixture Models

Balooch Hasankhani,

Jahani,

Sharifi

et al. 2023

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Background: The pattern of death due to COVID-19 is not the same worldwide and requires special approaches and strategies to identify. Objective: This study aimed to investigate the pattern of COVID-19 mortality rates in different countries using the Growth Mixture Model (GMM). Methods: This longitudinal study examined mortality trends due to COVID-19 for 214 countries during 2020-2022. Data were extracted from the World Health Organization reports. Countries were classified using Latent Growth Models (LGM) and GMM based on reported death trends. Results: Countries worldwide were classified into four clusters with different mortality patterns due to COVID-19. The highest increase in the death rate was related to cluster 2, including three countries of Iran, Peru, and Spain. The lowest increase in the death rate in each period belonged to cluster 1, which included about 60% of the world's countries. In cluster 3, most European countries, the United States, and a few countries from South America and Southeast Asia were placed. Italy was the only country in the fourth cluster. Conclusion: Our findings showed which countries performed better or worse in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Clustering Countries based on the Trend of COVID-19 Mortality Rates: An Application of Growth Mixture Models

Balooch Hasankhani,

Jahani,

Sharifi

et al. 2023

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“…Research shows that personal protective measures (e.g., physical distancing, hand hygiene, and maskwearing) are considered as one of the main public health and social measures (PHSMs) that should be implemented in order to suppress COVID-19 transmission [19,20]. The importance to using masks, handwashing, social distancing, maintaining a healthy lifestyle, conducting tracing, tracking, and testing provide significant COVID-19 cases from the workplace [3,6,[12][13][14][15][16][17][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37].…”

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COVID-19 in the Workplace in Indonesia

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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been declared a pandemic because of its worldwide spread. The COVID-19 pandemic does not only impact public health but also the operations of businesses and workers’ safety in their workplace. The objectives of this study were to provide a broad perspective of COVID-19 prevention and control implementation in industries, investigate barriers and challenges as well as drivers in implementing COVID-19 prevention and control, and provide key recommendations to the policy makers regarding COVID-19 prevention and control in industries. This study was conducted through online interviews with selected organizations in various industries which were selected by the granting body, including agriculture and animal husbandry; construction; manufacturing; and logistic and goods transportation. It also involved policy makers from government agencies including the Ministry of Manpower, Ministry of Health, Indonesian Safety and Health Council, International Labor Organization, and Indonesian COVID-19 Task Force. The participants of this study were chosen using convenience sampling. The findings of this study indicate that health protocols are implemented to varying degrees in companies, both within and across the sectors, and that drivers to comply with the Health Protocols include compliance, business continuity, and top management commitment. The significant barriers and challenges include a perceived lack of clear direction from the government, rapid changes in directives’, poor worker awareness, and limited organizational resources. The key recommendations to the policy maker include harmonization of the guidelines and legislation, additional schemes to provide funding in the COVID-19 prevention and control implementation, as well as facilitate the ongoing education of the general working public.

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“…It was reported that the larger the size of the company, the more measures are implemented in Italy, Japan, and Iran. 7 , 8 , 9 It was also reported that the financial sector took more progress measures than the food sector in Italy. 7 However, to the best of our knowledge, the impact of factors related to workplace health cultures, such as workplace health promotion policies and practices, has not been examined.…”

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“…There are significant differences among workplaces in the implementation of infection control measures. It was reported that the larger the size of the company, the more measures are implemented in Italy, Japan, and Iran 7–9 . It was also reported that the financial sector took more progress measures than the food sector in Italy 7 .…”

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Corporate health culture promotes infection control measures against COVID-19 in the workplace

Nagata

Odagami

Nagata

et al. 2022

Journal of Occupational Health

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Objectives The present study examined the relationship between health culture evaluated by the Health and Productivity Survey Sheets and the implementation status of infection control measures against COVID‐19 in the workplace. Methods This was a cross‐sectional study using the corporate data (2518 companies) collected for the purpose of selecting the excellent company of health and productivity management by the Japanese government. The explanatory variable was the overall evaluation score, and the outcome was whether or not infection control measures against COVID‐19 in the workplace. We used logistic regression analysis and calculated the odds ratio adjusted for the industry sector, the corporation size, and the operating profit ratio by the overall evaluation score category. Results The odds ratio of all infection control measurements in the workplace increased as the evaluation score increased. Conclusions This study revealed a new finding that the presence of a healthy culture in the workplace will lead to the appropriate implementation of infection control measures during a pandemic. The company's ordinary commitment to employee health will be effective even in times of health crisis, such as during the outbreak of the pandemic.

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Prevention measures and risk factors for COVID-19 in Iranian workplaces

Cited by 7 publications

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Clustering Countries based on the Trend of COVID-19 Mortality Rates: An Application of Growth Mixture Models

Clustering Countries based on the Trend of COVID-19 Mortality Rates: An Application of Growth Mixture Models

COVID-19 in the Workplace in Indonesia

Corporate health culture promotes infection control measures against COVID-19 in the workplace

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