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General health profile of craft fishermen of the Los Lagos region

Dörner PA, Riquelme CV, Véliz BA, Ripoll NM

Language: Spanish
References: 18
Page: 99-106
PDF size: 280.86 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Foundation: craft fishermen live in an extremely demanding and complex labor and personal reality, which impact in their quality of life and provoke early health problems.
Objective: to identify the craft fishermen health profile, of the Los Lagos Region.
Methods: a quantitative study was developed through the application of a health survey to 92 craft fishermen, with an average age of 63. The variables under study were: age, weight, height, scholarship, personal pathological antecedents, hospital admissions, alcohol consumption, smoking habit, presence of tuberculosis, fasting glycemia and obesity or overweight. As instruments a socio-demographic survey, a questionnaire, preventive medical examination and periodical health assessment were applied. The variables were analyzed through descriptive and inferential statistic and presented in tables of frequency. The descriptive statistic graphs calculated were media and standard deviation. For inferential analysis Squared Chi was applied.
Results: the main results indicate that a 68 % presented overweight features and obesity, 41 % hypertension, 48 % smokes tobacco and 38 % reported alcohol consumption. Only 17 % declared to have physical activity three or more times a week and 42 % presented fasting glycemia values › 100 mg/dl.
Conclusion: data indicate the need of generating preventive actions, of promotion and timely of health pathologies to avoid them to become in direct or indirect causes of workers death.


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