Open AccessStudy of noncommunicable diseases among the street sweepers of Muster Station, Ahmedabad municipal corporation
Author(s) -
Sonal Parikh,
Anand Shah,
Bansi K. Davda,
D. V. Bala
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
indian journal of community medicine/indian journal of community medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1998-3581
pISSN - 0970-0218
DOI - 10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_322_18
Subject(s) - medicine , municipal corporation , environmental health , underweight , corporation , medical emergency , business , finance , pathology , overweight , obesity
Today we all are talking for "Swatch Bharat", but street workers are the real fighters who are working for this. Street working environment exposes to lot of organic and inorganic dust and chronic inhalation of dust during street sweeping which may increases respiratory health symptoms among them. This study was planned to study the effect of work on health of street workers primarily respiration function.