Maritime workers and their global health: Need to improve scientific knowledge and prevention

ABSTRACT

Recently, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared seafarers as essential workers and recommended they have priority access to COVID-19 vaccination [6]. [...]maritime workers have a high rate of occupational accidents. Most of them are linked to human factors and work performance [9]. [...]depression, boredom and fatigue have been described as risk factors [9-11]. Improving and building of Cohort studies, creating Exposure assessment and Prevention measures, improving Equity, Health, and Education. 1 ORPHY Laboratory, University Brest, Brest, France 2 Occupational and Environmental Diseases Center, Teaching Hospital, Brest, France 3 French Society of Maritime Medicine Brest, Brest, France 4 Centre for Maritime Health and Society, Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Esbjerg, Denmark 5 Universidad Metropolitana de Educación Ciencia y Tecnología.