ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: To analyze the newly diagnosed occupational disease spectrum of female workers in Guangdong Province from 2009 to 2018. METHODS: The data of occupational diseases of female workers reported to the National Occupational Diseases Network Direct Reporting System during 2009 to 2018 in Guangdong Province were collected, and analyzed by descriptive epidemiological method. RESULTS: A total of 1 191 female workers with new occupational diseases were reported in Guangdong Province from 2009 to 2018, involving 40 occupational diseases in 8 categories. The number of new occupational disease cases generally showed an increased trend in a zigzag pattern, with the lowest number in 2009(44 cases). The new case number increased from 2015 to 2018, and reached a peak in 2017(176 cases), which was four times higher than that in 2009. The top four classifications of occupational diseases were occupational chemical poisoning(59.7%), occupational ear-nose-throat-oral diseases(19.7%), occupational tumor(7.8%), and occupational pneumoconiosis and other respiratory diseases(6.1%). The top four entities of occupational diseases were occupational chronic benzene poisoning(35.0%), occupational noise deafness(19.6%), occupational chronic n-hexane poisoning(14.5%) and occupational benzene induced leukemia(7.7%). The new occupational diseases mainly concentrated in Pearl River Delta Region, accounting for 96.6%. The new cases mainly distributed in manufacturing industry(95.1%), private economic enterprises(41.6%), and medium and small enterprises(68.3%). Totally 64.2% of the cases were seen in operating workers. CONCLUSION: The newly diagnosed occupational disease spectrum of female workers in Guangdong Province shows aggregation in both categories and varieties. It also shows aggregation in certain area, enterprise industry, enterprise economic type, enterprise scale and type of work.