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CISDOC database
Document ID (ISN) | 65552 |
CIS number |
95-2085 |
Year |
1994 |
Convention or series no. |
Ricerche e formazione 2
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Author(s) |
Alaura C., Scala D. Centro regionale di documentazione per la prevenzione ambientale e del lavoro (CEDOC) |
Title |
Work and pregnancy |
Original title |
Lavoro e gravidanza [in Italian] |
Bibliographic information |
Regione Toscana Giunta Regionale, Via dei Servi 51, 50122 Firenze, Italy, 1994. 188p. Bibl.ref. |
Abstract |
Contents of this monograph devoted to the study of the relationship between work and pregnancy: the legislative framework (ILO Conventions, EEC Directives, Italian national and regional laws and regulations); statistics on reproductive health in the population (with particular attention to the Tuscany Region in Italy); relevant research projects in Italy (traces of chlorinated hydrocarbons in mother's milk, medical and sociodemographic characteristics of women seeking abortions, the multi-centre EUROCAT study of exposures and pregnancy, lead levels in pregnant women, factors in repeated cases of spontaneous abortion); reproductive health in working women: physiology of pregnancy and increased susceptibility to occupational hazards, reproductive pathologies (infertility, spontaneous abortion, foetal malformations, childhood cancers); classification of reproductory risk factors (including list of substances classified as teratogenic by the EC); hazards and pathologies of pregnancy (infections, noise, vibration, organic solvents, metals, pesticides); profile on hazards in various occupations (incl. information on transfer to other jobs for the duration of the pregnancy); training and information of workers. In appendices: texts of Italian and EC legislative texts for the protection of pregnant women at work. |
Descriptors (primary) |
antifertility effects; Italy; expectant mothers; women; Tuscany |
Descriptors (secondary) |
European Communities; noise; metals; vibration; teratogens; law; organic solvents; cancer; statistics; list of chemical substances; legislation; pesticides |
Document type |
E - Books, reports, proceedings |
Country / State or Province | Italy |
Subject(s) |
Occupational physiology
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Broad subject area(s) |
Occupational medicine, epidemiology
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Browse category(ies) |
Genetic factors in reaction to exposures Antifertility and prenatal effects
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