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Prevalence of Health Hazards: A Study on the Female Workers of Garment Industry in Gazipur District, Bangladesh.
Author(s) -
Md. Shohel Mahmud,
Vinay Rajath D.,
Md. Rayhan Mahmud,
Mst. Nusrat Jahan,
Md. Rownok Hasan,
Kazi Md. Arifur Rahman
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of applied and advanced research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2519-9412
DOI - 10.21839/jaar.2017.v2i3.91
Subject(s) - environmental health , business , medicine , socioeconomics , economics
The present study tries to find out the prevalence of health hazards among the female workers of the garment industry in Gazipur district, Bangladesh. This study focused on two sub-districts, Sreepur and Kaliakoir, of Gazipur district. Data for this study were collected from 100 female garment workers of Gazipur district. This study observes female workers in the industry consistently suffer from a range of physical health complexities such as headache, eye problem, hand pain and respiratory difficulties. This study also analyses the causes and measures to solve the health issues of female workers of the garment industry.

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