库马西屠宰场工作人员对虫和虫传染病原体的知识,态度和做法
Seth Offei Addo1, Margaret Addo2, Michael E DeWitt3,4,5
1Parasitology Department Noguchi Memorial Institute For Medical Research University of Ghana Accra Ghana.
Public health challenges
|November 17, 2025
概括
加纳的屠宰场工人因与牲畜接触而面临着动物感染的传播疾病的高风险. 许多工人缺乏知识和意识,增加感染风险. 教育和控制措施对于预防至关重要.
科学领域:
- 兽医公共卫生 兽医公共卫生
- 动物传播疾病流行病学
- 职业健康和安全问题 职业健康和安全问题
背景情况:
- 加纳的畜牧业存在动物传染病风险,特别是传播的病原体.
- 屠宰场工人通过直接与动物接触,暴露于虫和相关病原体的程度有所提高.
- 了解屠宰场工作人员的知识,态度和做法对于减轻动物传播感染风险至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 评估屠宰场工作人员对和传播病原体的知识,态度和做法,在加纳库马西.
- 确定在这个职业群体中导致潜在动物感染的风险因素和知识差距.
- 为预防和控制疾病提供有针对性的干预信息.
主要方法:
- 一项涉及库马西三处屠宰场130名工人的横截面研究.
- 通过调查收集数据,评估人口统计,工作习惯和对传播疾病的看法.
- 统计分析以确定教育等因素对风险感知的影响.
主要成果:
- 很高比例的工人处理活/死动物 (95.4%/87.7%) 并报告咬 (81.5%),这表明暴露显著.
- 只有35.4%的人认为人类可以从咬中感染疾病,58.5%的人认为咬与传播疾病有关.
- 缺乏教育与较低的风险感知有显著的关联 (p=0.008),有52%的未受过教育的工人否认感染人类的风险.
结论:
- 库马西的屠宰场工人因职业暴露和知识缺陷而面临动物性传播感染的严重风险.
- 迫切需要加强针对屠宰场工人的健康教育计划,以了解传播疾病的风险和预防.
- 实施有效的控制措施和促进预防实践对于减少这种高风险人群中动物感染传播至关重要.
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