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Occupational safety and health guidelines in relation to COVID‐19 risk, death risk, and case‐fatality proportion: An international, ecological study

BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) began in 2019 with several unknown factors. The World Health Organization (WHO) subsequently developed COVID‐19 occupational safety and health (OSH) guidelines to reduce occupational COVID‐19 transmission. Many countries also developed their own COVID‐...

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Autores principales: Roberts, Morgan, Thygerson, Steven M., Beard, John D., Clark, Camille, Montague, Emma
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8919368/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35308414
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hsr2.539
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Thygerson, Steven M.
Beard, John D.
Clark, Camille
Montague, Emma
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description BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) began in 2019 with several unknown factors. The World Health Organization (WHO) subsequently developed COVID‐19 occupational safety and health (OSH) guidelines to reduce occupational COVID‐19 transmission. Many countries also developed their own COVID‐19 OSH guidelines, but whether these guidelines included WHO's guidelines and whether including WHO's guidelines in countries' COVID‐19 OSH guidelines reduced COVID‐19 transmission is unknown. OBJECTIVES: The objectives of our study were to (1) compare the COVID‐19 OSH guidelines of several countries to WHO's OSH guidelines, (2) estimate associations between characteristics of countries and their OSH guidelines and the number of WHO's OSH guidelines included in countries' OSH guidelines, and (3) estimate associations between WHO's OSH guidelines included in countries' OSH guidelines and COVID‐19 risk, death risk, and case‐fatality proportion. METHODS: This study represents international, ecological research of 36 countries from all six world health regions. Countries' COVID‐19 OSH guidelines were compared with WHO's OSH guidelines. Linear regression models adjusted for potential confounders were used to estimate associations of interest. RESULTS: The median number of WHO's 15 COVID‐19 OSH guidelines included in countries' COVID‐19 OSH guidelines was eight. Countries' COVID‐19 OSH guidelines focused on workers included significantly more of WHO's COVID‐19 OSH guidelines than countries' COVID‐19 OSH guidelines focused on general populations. Including “provide personal protective equipment for workers” and “create workplace policy for wearing personal protective equipment” in countries' COVID‐19 OSH guidelines were significantly related to decreased COVID‐19 risk, death risk, and/or case‐fatality proportion. CONCLUSIONS: Countries' COVID‐19 OSH guidelines should include WHO's guidelines, focus on workers, and include “provide personal protective equipment for workers” and “create workplace policy for wearing personal protective equipment.”
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spelling pubmed-89193682022-03-18 Occupational safety and health guidelines in relation to COVID‐19 risk, death risk, and case‐fatality proportion: An international, ecological study Roberts, Morgan Thygerson, Steven M. Beard, John D. Clark, Camille Montague, Emma Health Sci Rep Research Articles BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) began in 2019 with several unknown factors. The World Health Organization (WHO) subsequently developed COVID‐19 occupational safety and health (OSH) guidelines to reduce occupational COVID‐19 transmission. Many countries also developed their own COVID‐19 OSH guidelines, but whether these guidelines included WHO's guidelines and whether including WHO's guidelines in countries' COVID‐19 OSH guidelines reduced COVID‐19 transmission is unknown. OBJECTIVES: The objectives of our study were to (1) compare the COVID‐19 OSH guidelines of several countries to WHO's OSH guidelines, (2) estimate associations between characteristics of countries and their OSH guidelines and the number of WHO's OSH guidelines included in countries' OSH guidelines, and (3) estimate associations between WHO's OSH guidelines included in countries' OSH guidelines and COVID‐19 risk, death risk, and case‐fatality proportion. METHODS: This study represents international, ecological research of 36 countries from all six world health regions. Countries' COVID‐19 OSH guidelines were compared with WHO's OSH guidelines. Linear regression models adjusted for potential confounders were used to estimate associations of interest. RESULTS: The median number of WHO's 15 COVID‐19 OSH guidelines included in countries' COVID‐19 OSH guidelines was eight. Countries' COVID‐19 OSH guidelines focused on workers included significantly more of WHO's COVID‐19 OSH guidelines than countries' COVID‐19 OSH guidelines focused on general populations. Including “provide personal protective equipment for workers” and “create workplace policy for wearing personal protective equipment” in countries' COVID‐19 OSH guidelines were significantly related to decreased COVID‐19 risk, death risk, and/or case‐fatality proportion. CONCLUSIONS: Countries' COVID‐19 OSH guidelines should include WHO's guidelines, focus on workers, and include “provide personal protective equipment for workers” and “create workplace policy for wearing personal protective equipment.” John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-03-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8919368/ /pubmed/35308414 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hsr2.539 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Health Science Reports published by Wiley Periodicals LLC https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Occupational safety and health guidelines in relation to COVID‐19 risk, death risk, and case‐fatality proportion: An international, ecological study
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title_short Occupational safety and health guidelines in relation to COVID‐19 risk, death risk, and case‐fatality proportion: An international, ecological study
title_sort occupational safety and health guidelines in relation to covid‐19 risk, death risk, and case‐fatality proportion: an international, ecological study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8919368/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35308414
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hsr2.539
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