Estimating the health consequences of flight attendant work: comparing flight attendant health to the general population in a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Flight attendants are an understudied occupational group, despite undergoing a wide and unique range of adverse job-related exposures. In our study, we aimed to characterize the health profile of cabin crew relative to the U.S. general population.

Methods

In 2014-2015, we surveyed participants of the Harvard Flight Attendant Health Study. We compared the prevalence of their health conditions to a contemporaneous cohort in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES 2013-2014) using age-weighted standardized prevalence ratios (SPRs). We also analyzed associations between job tenure and selected health outcomes, using logistic regression and adjusting for potential confounders.

Results

Compared to the NHANES population (n = 2729), flight atte

SUBMITTER: McNeely E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5865289 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature