Changes in occupational profiles and occupational health service
Journal Title: Anthropological Researches and Studies - Year 2018, Vol 8, Issue 8
Abstract
Objectives. Changes in the economy and occupational profile, implementation of new technologies and fragmentation of tasks and work processes justify the urgent needs in specialized occupational health and basic services. The national economy of the Republic of Moldova used to be based on the agricultural sector, two-thirds of the workers being employed in agriculture, while at present this country is undergoing changes in the occupational profile of the agricultural workers. As the total number of employees was reduced twice, the office workers, public workers, and others experienced a growing trend. Material and methods. Cross-descriptive, retrospective, sociological (questionnaire for hygienist doctors from territorial public health centers), and analytical-descriptive research of national occupational profile in the dynamics of 15 years was conducted. Approval of the ethics committee and informed respondent consent were obtained. There are presented the remote results of 61 hygienist doctors and 53 expert doctors who activated in the security and health services from the Republic of Moldova. Results. A demographic decline among the working age population was registered (from 63.78% in 2000 to 59.58% in 2015); there was also a decrease in the diagnosis of occupational diseases at early stages (0 cases 2014, 2015, 2016), which caused a 1.5-time increase of disabilities in the working population during the last years. We should also mention the 2.5 times rise of the percentage of employees working in harmful and inadequate sanitary conditions. The results of the inquiring the occupational health specialists justified the necessity: to categorize the place of work depending on the branch of the national economy; to elaborate tools to supervise and monitor the occupational health services; to strengthen medical statistical tools in occupational health care; to show the main causes of illness. Conclusions. Currently, the results of changes in the occupational profile are caused by: the absence of an interdepartmental strategic plan in the field of occupational health; the small number of businesses where health services are provided; lack of specialized indicators for monitoring occupational health; a low number of doctors specializing in occupational medicine; lack of motivation from the employer and the employee to establish the diagnosis of occupational disease; the phenomenon of high migration of the working-age population; the lack of a national electronic medical register for medical examination of the employees with occupational diseases.
Authors and Affiliations
Alina Ferdohleb
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP569018
- DOI 10.26758/8.1.18
- Views 62
- Downloads 0
Psychological profiling of participants at the Miss World contest via combined methodology: psychometric assessments and projective drawing
Objectives. We are discussing psychological consequences of consequences of embracing dominant cultural values. Among them, beauty and its constant visual (and superficial) presentation become imperative criteria for sel...
Psychopathology and parent-child relationships in illicit drugs users
Objectives: Drug usage represents an important and profound problem, as it can have long-term negative effects on the individual and society. According to previous studies, drug usage is connected to several factors, amo...
Considerations regarding the risks of obesity and physical inactivity
This paper aims to emphasize the risks of obesity and physical inactivity, knowing that an unhealthy lifestyle based on sedentariness, a chaotic rhythm of work programmes and sleeping hours, and inappropriate food ingest...
Students’ research activity as a contribution to modern university
Objectives. The present article aims to analyze some aspects of student’s training and the quality of lecturing as a specific basis for modern university support students’ integration to research activities. The article...
Anthropometric study on the role of yogurt fermented with Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis in the prevention and treatment of obesity and related diseases
Objectives. The role of yogurt, respectively probiotics, in the treatment and prevention of obesity has been discussed. The aim of our study was to investigate the effect of yogurt fermented with Lactobacillus bulgaricus...