A nationwide cohort study on pneumonia infections among agriculture and healthcare workers in Taiwan.

ABSTRACT: Bacterial infection risk in work environments has been extensively reported for healthcare workers, while this risk is rarely researched in other occupations. This study aimed to identify occupational environments in Taiwan's agricultural and healthcare industries with elevated bacterial infection risks by comparing risks for general bacterial infections and pneumonia. Using labour and health insurance claim data from 3.3 million workers (January 2004-December 2020), a retrospective cohort was constructed to estimate occupational infection risks with Cox regression and the Anderson-Gill extension. Significantly elevated hazard ratios were found for workers in vegetable growing, crop cultivation service, mushroom growing, flower growing, and fruit growing, ranging from 1.13 to 1.39 for gene

SUBMITTER: de Jong EP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11626447 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature