The health of women in the US fire service.
The health of women in the US fire service.
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DOI：
10.1186/1472-6874-12-39
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发表时间：
2012-10-31
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通讯作者：
Horvath C
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作者：
Jahnke SA;Poston WS;Haddock CK;Jitnarin N;Hyder ML;Horvath C
尽管包括国际消防员协会和国际消防队长协会在内的国家消防服务组织发表声明，促进消防服务中与性别有关的多样化工作队伍，但女消防员的比例仍然很低。因此，研究为什么这种广泛的性别差距继续存在是一个高度优先事项。近年来，已经看到了一些大规模的研究消防员的健康和健康风险行为，但是，没有一个集中在女性消防员的健康，几乎所有的样本都排除了妇女，由于样本量小。本报告中的数据来自一项流行病学研究中随机选择的大型消防员队列中的所有女性，该研究旨在评估对消防服务最重要的健康结果和健康风险行为。本研究报告的数据收集作为消防员受伤和风险评估（FIRE）研究的基线数据，这是一项纵向队列研究，旨在研究IAFC密苏里州山谷地区职业和志愿消防员受伤的风险因素。在接受评估的部门中，只有8个职业部门和6个志愿部门有女消防员。所有被邀请参加的妇女都选择参加这项研究。职业部门的妇女人数为1至7人，志愿部门的妇女人数为1至6人。在可能的情况下，对女消防员和公布的男消防员数据进行比较，并对女消防员和军人进行比较。与男性消防员相比，女性在职业消防员和志愿消防员中的身体成分更有利。女性吸烟率普遍高于男性，女消防员吸烟率与女军人吸烟率相似。虽然酒精使用率高于一般人群，但只有一名参与者在CAGE筛查的关注范围内表现出反应。总的来说，研究结果提供了一个有趣的一瞥女性在消防服务的健康作为一个普遍健康的职业劳动力与一些独特的健康风险行为的挑战。他们还强调了男性和女性消防员之间的一些相似之处和差异，并支持将女性消防员作为一个独特的职业亚群进行研究的论点。
Despite statements from national fire service organizations, including the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) and the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC), promoting a diverse work force related to gender within the fire service, rates of women firefighters remain very low. Thus, research into why this extensive gender disparity continues is a high priority. Recent years have seen a number of large scale studies on firefighter health and health risk behaviors however, none have focused on the health of women firefighters and nearly all have eliminated women from the sample due to small sample size. Data from the present report is drawn from all females in a large, randomly selected cohort of firefighters in an epidemiological study designed to assess health outcomes and health risk behaviors identified as most important to the fire service. Data reported for the present study were collected as baseline data for the Firefighter Injury and Risk Evaluation (FIRE) Study, a longitudinal cohort study examining risk factors for injury in both career and volunteer firefighters in the IAFC Missouri Valley Region. Of the departments assessed, only 8 career and 6 volunteer departments had any women firefighters. All the women solicited for participation chose to enroll in the study. The number of women ranged from 1 to 7 in career departments and 1 to 6 in volunteer departments. Where possible, comparisons are made between female firefighters and published data on male firefighters as well as comparisons between female firefighters and military members. Compared to male firefighters, females had more favorable body composition among both career and volunteer firefighters. Tobacco use rates were generally higher among females than males and rates among female firefighters were similar to the rates of female military members. While rates of alcohol use were higher than the general population, only one of the participants evidenced responses in the range of concern on the CAGE screening. In general, the findings offer an interesting glimpse of the health of women in the fire service as a generally healthy occupational workforce with some unique health risk behavior challenges. They also highlight some of the similarities and differences between male and female firefighters and bolster the argument for studying female firefighters as a unique occupational sub-population.
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