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JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE
Volume 42, Issue 10, Pages 1035-1040Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/00043764-200010000-00011
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Very few data exist that describe the risk of injury in African American health care workers, who are highly represented in health care occupations. The present study examined the risk for work-related injury in African American hospital workers. Hospital Occupational Health Service medical records and a hospital human resource database were used to compare risk of injury between African American and white workers after adjusting for gender, age, physical demand of the job, and total hours worked. Risk of work-related injury was 2.3 times higher in African Americans. This difference was not explained by the other independent variables. Differences in injury reporting, intra-job workload psychosocial factors, and organizational factors are all potential explanations for racial disparity in occupational injury. More research is needed to clarify these findings.
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