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Process of precocious functional aging in workers of laundries

Issue title: IEA 2012: 18th World congress on Ergonomics - Designing a sustainable future

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Mafra, Simone Caldas Tavares | Carlos, Celina Angélica Lisboa Valente | da Silva, e Vania Eugênia

Affiliations: Departament of Home Economics, Federal University of Vicosa, Vicosa, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Note: [] sctmafra@ufv.br

Note: [] celinavalente@yahoo.com.br

Note: [] vaeusi@yahoo.com.br

Keywords: Capacity for the work, Precocious functional aging, Laundry, Workers

DOI: 10.3233/WOR-2012-0179-340

Journal: Work, vol. 41, no. Supplement 1, pp. 340-348, 2012

Published: 2012
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Abstract

The World Health Organization (WHO), as well as researchers of the whole world, it has been demonstrating concern with the subject of the aging related to the work and it recognizes that modifications in the several systems of the human body take to the gradual decrease in the effectiveness of each one of them, because the aging caused by the work advances apprenticeships of the cycle of the man’s life, not respecting the natural state of that process. In this sense, it was aimed at with this research to investigate the relative aspects to the capacity for the work and to the workers’ with responsibility to realize the work in the laundries service, verifying if they present signs of precocious functional aging.

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