Working condition and health status of female labourers in agricultural industry
- Author:
Tu Hong Nguyen
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
working condition
- MeSH:
risk factors;
Industry;
Agriculture;
Female
- From:Journal of Practical Medicine
2002;435(11):4-6
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
The study was conducted on 4,800 female labourers from three regions. It was selected randomly one district from every province, 2 communes from every district and 300 labourers from every commune. The result showed that agricultural female labourers have rate of 53.5 - 55.5%, most of them are 26 - 45 years of old (73.5%). Most of them have primary and secondary education (84.7%). 11.3% of participants have high-school education and 4% have just escaped illiteracy. 88% have married and 45.9% have more than 2 live children. Working duration is long (8-17 hours per day) and most of them have not received health care periodically. Labor accident rate remains to be high in agricultural female labourers with 130 cases per 10,000 people
