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Rheumatic Disturbances and Illness in Women Linked to the Manner of Carrying Out Work Tasks
Ladislav Krapac
; Institut za medicinska istraživanja i medicinu rada Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Odjel medicine rada, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
The paper presents data on the frequency of degenerative illnesses of the spine and in the joints of the extremities in samples of the middle-aged population in the SR of Croatia. Every fourth woman between 38 and 57 years of age had disturbances of the spine, and every fifth one had disturbances in the joints of her extremities. Medical findings suspect of rheumatic arthritis was recorded in 11.4 % of the women. A clear clinical picture of rheumatic arthritic was recorded in 1 % of the women, and only in 0.2 % of the men of middle age. Taking the case of the cervico-brachial syndrome, the paper discusses possible exogenous and endogenous factors in the appearance and development of rheumatic illness. In regard to the appearance of rheumatic disorders among women migrants, attention is paid to the importance of the psychic profile of the patient, to possible psychogenic superpositions – but also to the unfavourable effect of work loads, to poor micro-climatic conditions, to the unsuitability of new technologies and to the disregard of ergonomie principles at work. Painful symptoms in the neck spinal area, called in Sweden the “immigrant syndrome”, have been the subject of recent research in which neither the aethiology nor the symptomatology have been sufficiently clarified. As a typical example of unfavourable effects of work on morphologic and functional changes in the small joints of the hand, mention is made of the hands of housewives, women workers in industry, typists, violinists. The paper discusses the possibilities of primary, secondary and tertiary prevention of rheumatic disturbances and/or illnesses. Among the self-protective measures which need to be encouraged, early recognition of characteristic symptoms of illness is of major significance. The author mentions the need of raising the health culture of women migrant workers, of implementing prophylactic kinesotherapeutic measures at work and at home, as well as the need to improve co-operation between Yugoslav doctors and social workers and their colleagues in foreign countries.
Ključne riječi
women migrants; rheumatic illnesses; Croatia
Hrčak ID:
127752
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.12.1990.
Posjeta: 1.297 *