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Effect of individual and work parameters on musculoskeletal health of manual agriculture workers

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  • Rahul Jain
  • M.L. Meena
  • G.S. Dangayach
  • A.K. Bhardwaj

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Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are a major work-related issue for farmers. The aim of the current research is to find out the occurrence and risk factors for MSDs in the manual agriculture workers. A sample of Indian workers was surveyed (N = 138). An information theory method was investigated to determine the comparative feature of mathematical models for a specified group of data collected on MSDs, individual and work parameters. The result from the Akaike information criterion analysis used further to select a model of the extreme fit. Risk Factors associated with MSDs in the final model with 95% bootstrap contained age (40.5%), gender (24.5%), education (5.2%), income satisfaction (10.6%), tool satisfaction (8.4%) and smoking (10.8%). Problem attentions to MSDs are identical in developed and newly industrialised countries. However, factors are not exact similar. Interventions targeted at manual activities for degrading risk factors that furnish to MSDs are necessary.

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  • Rahul Jain & M.L. Meena & G.S. Dangayach & A.K. Bhardwaj, 2019. "Effect of individual and work parameters on musculoskeletal health of manual agriculture workers," International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 32(1), pages 56-70.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijisen:v:32:y:2019:i:1:p:56-70
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