根据职业群体对基本工作人员的COVID-19风险评估:马萨诸塞州的一个案例研究
Beth M Haley1, Prasad Patil2, Jonathan I Levy1
1Department of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Boston University, 715 Albany St, Boston, MA, 02118, USA.
Journal of community health
|July 28, 2023
概括
在建筑,生产和面向公众的角色中的基本工人面临更高的COVID-19风险. 识别特定行业的风险对于有针对性的公共卫生干预和疾病预防战略至关重要.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 流行病学 流行病学
- 职业健康 职业健康 职业健康
背景情况:
- 基本工人经常被聚合在COVID-19模型中,掩盖了特定行业的风险.
- 了解差异性职业暴露对于有针对性的公共卫生干预至关重要.
- 非医疗保健的基本工作者需要进行特定的风险评估.
研究的目的:
- 发展超越广泛聚合的新型基本工人类别.
- 评估这些类别与COVID-19病例和死亡之间的关联.
- 为关键工人群体提供有针对性的干预信息.
主要方法:
- 利用人口普查区级的美国社区调查数据来对马萨诸塞州的基本工人进行分类.
- 分析了来自马萨诸塞州公共卫生部的COVID-19病例和死亡数据.
- 雇员调整混合效应负二项式回归以评估两次大流行阶段 (2020年3月至2021年2月) 的关联.
主要成果:
- 在建筑/运输/建筑维护,生产和面向公众的销售/服务人员度较高的地区观察到高的COVID-19病例发生率.
- 病例发生率降低与能够远程工作的基本工人的比例更高有关.
- 在COVID-19死亡方面发现了类似的,尽管减弱的趋势.
结论:
- 对必要工作人员的行业特定风险估计对于有效的COVID-19干预策略至关重要.
- 开发的基本工人类别为风险评估提供了一种可重复的方法.
- 这种方法可以支持针对各种疾病的有针对性的公共卫生工作.
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