Monitoring the health of the working female population in harmful and dangerous working conditions

Abstract

The main purpose of monitoring the health of the working female population is not only to prevent the occurrence of general and occupational diseases, but also to prevent complications of common diseases and accidents. The establishment of their rational work regime depends on the results of monitoring women’s health, since there is a large list of contraindications that restrict women from performing certain jobs in harmful and dangerous working conditions. There are many known accidents at work that have been observed in workers as a result of exacerbation or complications of a general disease. These cases were more common in workers who were not allowed to perform hazardous work due to their health. There are two assumptions about the occurrence of these situations: 1) poor quality medical examinations and 2) admission to the performance to the performance hazardous work of workers, who for health reasons should be eliminated. Medical examinations and monitoring of women’s health at the Institute of Occupational Health and Occupational Diseases of KhNMU found that only 10–12% of women are practically healthy, 20–25% have hypertension of varying severity, 5–7% – varicose veins of the lower extremities, 10% – various gynecological diseases, 5% – anemia and other diseases. When monitoring women’s health on psychophysiological indicators, it was found that in Ukraine about 20% of women perform dangerous types of work. Medical examinations of the working population for many years revealed that there were significantly more healthy people among males than among females. This raises the big question of women’s permits and requirements for these jobs/