Investigation into Occupational Disease of Fishing Crew

Kim, Jae-Ho; Jeong, Eun-Seok; Moon, Serng-Bae; Kim, Jeong-Gon; Lee, Sang-Woo

Journal of Navigation and Port Research 2006;30(5):405-414.
Published online June 30, 2006.

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Investigation into Occupational Disease of Fishing Crew

Jae-Ho Kim, Eun-Seok Jeong, Serng-Bae Moon, Jeong-Gon Kim, Sang-Woo Lee

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to find out morbidity rate and pattern of occupational disease and affect of variables related disease of Fishing crew The subjects this study were 624 Fishing crew who took education course in Korea Institute of Maritime and Fisheries Technology. This questionnaire was focused on finding the basic data for prevention of occupational disease and promotion health on the Fishing crew The collected data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics, Chi-square, cross tab by SPSS package. The result of this study are as follow. 1)The morbidity rate within recent 12 months was 70.2%. there were significant differences of occurred disease in age, rank, perceived health status， fatigue symptoms, rest time, workload overtime duration 2) the more aging(p<0.01), perceived fatigue(p<0.01)， workload(p<0.01)， overtime(p<0.05) and the less perceived health status(p<0.01), rest time(p<0.01), the higher morbidity rate 3) Considering disease unable to work more than 4 hour, the number of those who had musculoskeletal disease were 20.9%, which revealed the highest rate, digestive disease 14.3%, traumatic disease 13.5%.

Key Words: Fishing crew;Disease;Group of disease;Morbidity