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Para-occupational exposure to chemical substances: a systematic review

  • Soleiman Ramezanifar ORCID logo , Afsane Azimian ORCID logo , Elahe khadiv ORCID logo , Seyed Husein Naziri ORCID logo , Noradin Gharari ORCID logo EMAIL logo und Mehdi Fazlzadeh ORCID logo EMAIL logo
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 2. August 2023
Reviews on Environmental Health
Aus der Zeitschrift Reviews on Environmental Health Band 39 Heft 4

Abstract

Today, many health problems related to work have overshadowed workers and their families. In the meantime, chemicals are among the risk factors that have created many problems due to para-occupational exposure. In para-occupational exposures, family members are exposed to work pollutants transferred to the home environment. This study was conducted to investigate para-occupational exposure to chemicals. To conduct this systematic review, databases such as “Web of Science”, “Google Scholar”, “Scopus”, and “SID” were used. Relevant articles in these databases were extracted by searching keywords such as “take-home exposure”, “para-occupational exposure”, and “chemicals” from 2000 to 2022. To extract the required data, all parts of the articles were reviewed following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA 2020). Among the 44 identified articles, 23 were selected as final articles, of which 10 were related to agriculture workers and their families, and 13 were related to other occupations. These studies mainly investigated para-occupational exposure to pesticides (14 studies) and metals (four studies). Also, contaminated work clothes, the washing place of contaminated clothes, and storage of working clothes, equipment, and chemicals were proposed as the main routes of contamination transmission. As a result of these para-occupational exposures, problems like neuro-behavioral disorders in children, end-stage renal disease, black gingival borders, and autism spectrum disorder were created or aggravated. Limiting the transmission routes and taking measures such as training and providing facilities like devoting places for washing and storing clothes in the workplaces can decrease this type of exposure.

Keywords: hazardous chemicals; occupational disease; occupational exposure; systematic review
Corresponding Author: Noradin Gharari, Lung Diseases Research Center, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Ardabil, Iran; and Department of Occupational Health, School of Health, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Ardabil, Iran, Phone: +982122432040, E-mail: ; and Mehdi Fazlzadeh, Lung Diseases Research Center, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Ardabil, Iran; and Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Phone: +987733450134, E-mail:

Funding source: Lung Diseases Research Center, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences

Award Identifier / Grant number: IR.ARUMS.REC. 1401.280

  1. Ethical Approval: Approval for this systematic review was obtained from the Ardabil University of Medical Sciences Research Ethics Committee (Project No. 1401/401000621, the ethic No. IR.ARUMS.REC. 1401.280).

  2. Informed consent: Not applicable.

  3. Author contributions: SR: Conceptualization, Methodology, Investigation, Writing – Original Draft, Writing – Review & Editing; AA: Investigation, Writing – Original Draft; EK: Investigation and Writing – Original Draft; SHN: Investigation, Writing – Original Draft; MF: Conceptualization, Writing – Review & Editing, NG: Conceptualization, Writing – Review & Editing, Supervision.

  4. Competing interests: The authors state no conflict of interest.

  5. Research funding: Lung Diseases Research Center of Ardabil University of Medical Sciences financially supported this research.

  6. Declaration of interests: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Received: 2023-02-10
Accepted: 2023-06-18
Published Online: 2023-08-02
Published in Print: 2024-12-17

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https://doi.org/10.1515/reveh-2023-0019
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hazardous chemicals; occupational disease; occupational exposure; systematic review

Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Reviews
  3. A systematic review on the association between exposure to air particulate matter during pregnancy and the development of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and gestational diabetes mellitus
  4. Screen time and childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: a meta-analysis
  5. The association between polycystic ovary syndrome and environmental pollutants based on animal and human study; a systematic review
  6. Residues of carcinogenic pesticides in food: a systematic review
  7. The concentration of Lithium in water resources: A systematic review, meta-analysis and health risk assessment
  8. Polychlorinated biphenyls and thyroid function: a scoping review
  9. The European Union assessments of radiofrequency radiation health risks – another hard nut to crack (Review)
  10. Research progresses on the effects of heavy metals on the circadian clock system
  11. Diagnosing and managing heat exhaustion: insights from a systematic review of cases in the desert climate of Mecca
  12. Para-occupational exposure to chemical substances: a systematic review
  13. Association of the ACE2-Angiotensin1-7–Mas axis with lung damage caused by cigarette smoke exposure: a systematic review
  14. Impacts and mechanisms of PM2.5 on bone
  15. Impacts and potential mechanisms of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) on male testosterone biosynthesis disruption
  16. Exposure to perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances and risk of stroke in adults: a meta-analysis
  17. Prevalence and concentration of aflatoxin M1 and ochratoxin A in cheese: a global systematic review and meta-analysis and probabilistic risk assessment
  18. The effect of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon biomarkers on cardiovascular diseases
  19. Biological effects of electromagnetic fields on insects: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  20. Letter to the Editor
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