creators_name: Kumar, D creators_name: Varun, A creators_name: Shah, U creators_name: Singh, US creators_id: drdineshkl@charutarhealth.org editors_name: Kakkilaya, Srinivas editors_id: Kakkilaya BS type: journale datestamp: 2017-02-18 20:32:01 lastmod: 2017-02-18 20:32:01 metadata_visibility: show title: Health Status of Padia Workers in Slums of a Taluka Headquarters in Gujarat ispublished: pub subjects: OJHAS full_text_status: public keywords: Padia worker, Unorganized sector, Musculoskeletal problems, Occupational health, Occupational accidents abstract: Background: ‘Padia’ is cup or plate made from paper. A cross-sectional study was carried out in 3 slum areas of Petlad town of Anand district in Gujarat state to describe the socio-economic and health status of the Padia workers using a pretested questionnaire. Results: 68.5% of the study participants were male. Only 27.6 % persons were educated upto higher secondary school and none beyond. There was no worker below 14 years of age.74 % work at their residence. Most of them spend about eight hours for the ‘Padia’ making work over and above their household job. Addictions were present in more than 1/3rd of workers. Musculoskeletal problem was commonest health problem. 18(12.1%) had experienced work place related injuries accidents. None of the workers used any protective devices. Conclusion: Padia workers have several health issues including occupation related health hazards. Need exists for a participatory occupational health programme for this working population. date: 2014-08-30 date_type: published publication: Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences volume: 13 number: 2 publisher: Kakkilaya BS refereed: TRUE referencetext: 1. Report of Committee on Unorganized Sector Statistics. New Delhi: Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Govt. of India; 2012. Available from: www.mospi.nic.in/mospi_new/nsc_report_un_sec_14mar12.pdf?status. 2. Protection of human environment; Occupational health: the work place. Geneva: WHO. Available from: www.who.int/peh/Occupational_health/occupational_health2.htm. 3. McCann M. Hazards in cottage industries in developing countries. Am J Ind Med. 30:125-129. 4. The Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure. National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. December 2003:3. Available from: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/hypertension/express.pdf 5. Joshi SK, Dahal P. Occupational health in small scale and household industries in Nepal: A situation analysis. Kathmandu University Medical Journal 2008;6( 2):152-160. 6. Roy S, Dasgupta A. A study on health status of women engaged in a home-based “Papad-making” industry in a slum area of Kolkata. Indian J Occup Environ Med. 2008 April;12(1):33–36. doi: 10.4103/0019-5278.40814. 7. Saha TK, Dasgupta A, Butt A, et al. Health status of workers engaged in the small scale garment industries: How healthy are they? Indian J Community Med 2010:35(1):179-82. 8. Chavada VK. A cross-sectional and observational study to assess the health status of people engaged in the tailoring occupation in an urban slum of Mumbai, India. Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research 2010 June;4:2495-2503. Available from: http://www.jcdr.net/pdf_download.asp?issn=&year=2010&month=June&volume=4&issue=3&page=2495&id=732. 9. Rongo LMB, Barten F, Msamanga GI, et al. Occupational exposure and health problems in small-scale industry workers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: a situation analysis. Occupational Medicine 2004;54:42–46. citation: Kumar, D and Varun, A and Shah, U and Singh, US (2014) Health Status of Padia Workers in Slums of a Taluka Headquarters in Gujarat. [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)] document_url: http://cogprints.org/9824/1/2014-2-2.pdf