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标题：Morbidity profile of Brick Kiln workers around Ahmedabad city
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作者：Gujarat Dr. Rajesh Mehta ; Dr. Niraj Pandit ; Dr Reena Parmar 等
期刊名称：Healthline
印刷版ISSN：2229-337X
出版年度：2010
卷号：1
期号：1
页码：41-44
出版社：Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine, Gujarat
摘要：Brick workers are known for poor health and poor access to health care. They are prone tospecialized group of diseases. The present study was undertaken with objective to study themorbidity pattern among brick workers working around Ahmedabad city. It was a cross-sectional study. There were 2545 brick kiln's workers examined for various morbidities.They have one or more morbidity during examination. The musculoskeletal symptoms,respiratory and digestive system related symptoms were the major morbidity. There wereother illness also observed, they were fever, malnutrition and skin diseases. The majority ofworkers were in age group of 15-44 years age group. The limitation of study was that it is thecamp based approach. There is need to plan community based house to house study amongbrick workers.
关键词：Brick kiln worker; morbidity; camp approach