Promotion of the health care for farmers working in factories in rural district / 日本農村医学会雑誌

ABSTRACT

Today's one of the most important problems both in the industrial hygiene and the community health care is the health protection of farmers who are working in factories. There are many such farmers in the San'in rural districts. We surveyed the working conditions of 370 factories in Shimane Prefecture and found that they had many problems to be solved. The problems in the factories, mostly small-scale factories, are summarized as aging of workers, long working hours, insufficient rest, harmful work and night work.<BR>Even in Sada-cho, where the local government is promoting the comprehensive community health care and encouraging the health care activity of inhabitants, the health care for factory workers is performed insufficiently. Some factories do not carry out even a periodical health examination of the workers.<BR>We established the Sada-cho Occupational Health Association in cooperation with the local government, Izumo Health Center, Shimane Labor Standard Inspection Office and the factories in Sada-cho for the purpose of promoting the unified activity of the industrial hygiene and the community health care.