Workplace Health Promotion: Assessing the Cardiopulmonary Risks of the Construction Workforce in Hong Kong
- Tin Sze Pui Pamela
- Lam Wendy W. T.
- Yoon Sungwon
- Zhang Na
- Xia Nan
- Zhang Weiwei
- Ma Ke
- Fielding Richard
DOIAbstract
Health needs of different employee subgroups within an industry can differ. We report the results of a workplace cardiopulmonary risk assessment targeting workers and support staff in the construction industry.-test for categorical and Student’s t-test for continuous variables.<0.05). Up to 12.6% of construction workers and 9.7% of office clerks/professions had three or more metabolic syndrome risk factors. While construction workers were more likely than clerks/professionals to be daily smokers, they reported better work-related physical activity and diet.Simple worksite health risk screening can identify potentially high-cardiopulmonary-risk construction industry employee subgroups for onward confirmatory referral. Separate cardiopulmonar...
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