Health Risks Awareness of Electronic Waste Workers in the Informal Sector in Nigeria.

ABSTRACT: Insight into the health risk awareness levels of e-waste workers is important as it may offer opportunities for better e-waste recycling management strategies to reduce the health effects of informal e-waste recycling. Therefore, this study assessed the knowledge, attitude, and practices associated with occupational health risk awareness of e-waste workers compared with a control group (butchers) in the informal sector in Nigeria. A cross-sectional study was used to assess health risk awareness of 279 e-waste workers (repairers and dismantlers) and 221 butchers from the informal sector in three locations in Nigeria in 2015. A questionnaire was used to obtain information on socio-demographic backgrounds, occupational history, knowledge, attitude, and work practices. The data was analysed us

SUBMITTER: Ohajinwa CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5580614 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature