TY - JOUR
T1 - Work related injuries in Qatar
T2 - A framework for prevention and control
AU - Mehmood, Amber
AU - Maung, Zaw
AU - Consunji, Rafael J.
AU - El-Menyar, Ayman
AU - Peralta, Ruben
AU - Al-Thani, Hassan
AU - Hyder, Adnan A.
N1 - Funding Information:
The work in this paper is supported through Qatar National Research Fund, National Priorities Research Program, grant # 7–1120 - 3 - 288, titled “A Unified Registry for Occupational Injury Prevention in Qatar”. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the Qatar National Research Fund.
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PY - 2018/9/5
Y1 - 2018/9/5
N2 - Work related injuries (WRIs) are a growing public health concern that remains under-recognized, inadequately addressed and largely unmeasured in low and middle-income countries (LMIC's). However, even in high-income countries, such as those in Gulf Cooperating Council (GCC) like Qatar, there are challenges in assuring the health and safety of its labor population. Countries in the GCC have been rapidly developing as a result of the economic boom from the petrochemical industry during the early seventies. Economic prosperity has propelled the migration of workers from less developed countries to make up for the human resource deficiency to develop its infrastructure, service and hospitality industries. Although these countries have gradually made huge gains in health, economy and human development index, including improvements in life expectancy, education, and standard of living, there remains a high incidence of work-related injuries especially in jobs in the construction and petrochemical sector. Currently, there is scarcity of literature on work-related injuries, especially empirical studies documenting the burden, characteristics and risk factors of work injuries and the work injured population, which includes large numbers of migrant workers in many GCC countries. This paper will focus on the current understanding of WRIs in those countries and identify the gaps in current approaches to workplace injury prevention, outlining current status of WRI prevention efforts in Qatar, and propose a framework of concerted action by multi-sectoral engagement.
AB - Work related injuries (WRIs) are a growing public health concern that remains under-recognized, inadequately addressed and largely unmeasured in low and middle-income countries (LMIC's). However, even in high-income countries, such as those in Gulf Cooperating Council (GCC) like Qatar, there are challenges in assuring the health and safety of its labor population. Countries in the GCC have been rapidly developing as a result of the economic boom from the petrochemical industry during the early seventies. Economic prosperity has propelled the migration of workers from less developed countries to make up for the human resource deficiency to develop its infrastructure, service and hospitality industries. Although these countries have gradually made huge gains in health, economy and human development index, including improvements in life expectancy, education, and standard of living, there remains a high incidence of work-related injuries especially in jobs in the construction and petrochemical sector. Currently, there is scarcity of literature on work-related injuries, especially empirical studies documenting the burden, characteristics and risk factors of work injuries and the work injured population, which includes large numbers of migrant workers in many GCC countries. This paper will focus on the current understanding of WRIs in those countries and identify the gaps in current approaches to workplace injury prevention, outlining current status of WRI prevention efforts in Qatar, and propose a framework of concerted action by multi-sectoral engagement.
KW - Injury prevention
KW - Labor migration
KW - Middle East
KW - Migrant workers
KW - Occupational injuries
KW - Qatar
KW - Work-related injuries
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U2 - 10.1186/s12995-018-0211-z
DO - 10.1186/s12995-018-0211-z
M3 - Review article
C2 - 30202423
AN - SCOPUS:85053142272
SN - 1745-6673
VL - 13
JO - Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
JF - Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
IS - 1
M1 - 293
ER -