Morbidity profile of Brick Kiln workers around Ahmedabad city, Gujarat

Abstract

Brick workers are known for poor health and poor access to health care. They are prone to specialized group of diseases. The present study was undertaken with objective to study the morbidity pattern among brick workers working around Ahmedabad city. It was a crosssectional study. There were 2545 brick kiln’s workers examined for various morbidities. They have one or more morbidity during examination. The musculoskeletal symptoms, respiratory and digestive system related symptoms were the major morbidity. There were other illness also observed, they were fever, malnutrition and skin diseases. The majority of workers were in age group of 15-44 years age group. The limitation of study was that it is the camp based approach. There is need to plan community based house to house study among brick workers.

Keywords

• Brick kiln worker
• morbidity
• camp approach