Cross-sectional study of the largest car-manufacturing group in Iran. The prevalence ... selected employees from the automotive industry. .... 5-4-1 Social Insurance Services⦠...... technician of occupational health and other necessary experts.
From the Department of Public Health Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77, Stockholm, Sweden
LOW BACK PAIN AMONG INDUSTRIAL WORKERS Occupational health studies on prevalence, incidence, and associations with work and lifestyle in I.R. Iran Mostafa Ghaffari
ABSTRACT This thesis presents the results from a prospective industrial population cohort study on epidemiology and risk factors for low back pain (LBP) in Iran. The four papers in the thesis were based on a cross-sectional survey and one-year follow-up of 18,000 employees in the automotive industry. The main goals of this thesis were: 1) to identify prevalence and incidence of LBP, and 2) to identify work-related exposures and lifestyle factors related to LBP. In paper ,, the study group consisted of all 18,000 employees working in the automotive industry. In this cross-sectional study, the majority of the study population were young males (
