Journal of Korean Society of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene (한국산업보건학회지)

Korean Industrial Hygiene Association (한국산업보건학회)
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Distribution of Hypertension According to Working Conditions among Korean Worker

근로환경에 따른 우리나라 근로자의 고혈압 분포

  • Kim, Young Sun (Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute, Korea Ocupational Safety and Health Agency) ;
  • Rhee, Kyung Yong (Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute, Korea Ocupational Safety and Health Agency) ;
  • Song, Se Wook (Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute, Korea Ocupational Safety and Health Agency)
  • 김영선 (산업안전보건공단 산업안전보건연구원) ;
  • 이경용 (산업안전보건공단 산업안전보건연구원) ;
  • 송세욱 (산업안전보건공단 산업안전보건연구원)
  • Received : 2013.12.01
  • Accepted : 2013.12.23
  • Published : 2014.12.31
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Abstract

Objectives: This study is aimed at inquiring into the grasp of real condition of working environment and improvements by calculating the hypertension distribution consequent on job stress risk and exposure level of alleviating factors. In addition, this study is intending to estimate the hypertension distribution through socio-demographic factors and level of stressors occurring at working environment, such as high workload, low control, low support, job insecurity, long working hours, low income. Methods: This study estimated the hypertension distribution using the tertiary Korean Working Conditions Survey data, and conducted comparative analysis according to the category of individual questionnaire items using odds ratio. Result: As a result of study, it was found that in the event that working environment satisfaction is low and business & an immediate superior's attitudes are negative, the hypertension distribution was high. Particularly, it was found that physical risk factor musculoskeletal risk factor, and mental risk factor in a workplace were all increasing the hypertension distribution. Conclusions: With the aged workers' labor market participation ratio increasing, hypertension could be a major issue in the field of Occupational Safety and Health. Thus, it's necessary that the relevant employer should lower the hypertension distribution through creation of pleasant working environment and inducement of workers to improve in the relations with their superiors. As for the uppermost limit of this study, there is a limit to clarifying the mechanism of hypertension through multivariate statistics analysis because it's difficult to establish causal relationship by individual questionnaire item as the working conditions survey is made by cross-sectional study. In the follow-up research, this study is going to do research on the mechanism of hypertension through questionnaire supplementation and in-depth analysis.

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