About: Estimating the burden of United States workers exposed to infection or disease: A key factor in containing risk of COVID-19 infection

Facets (new session)
Description
Metadata
Settings
- owl:sameAs
- Inference Rule:

About: Estimating the burden of United States workers exposed to infection or disease: A key factor in containing risk of COVID-19 infection Goto Sponge NotDistinct Permalink

An Entity of Type : schema:ScholarlyArticle, within Data Space : covidontheweb.inria.fr associated with source document(s)

Attributes	Values
type	Academic Article research paper schema:ScholarlyArticle
isDefinedBy	Covid-on-the-Web dataset
has title	Estimating the burden of United States workers exposed to infection or disease: A key factor in containing risk of COVID-19 infection
Creator	Seixas, Noah Baker Id, Marissa Peckham, Trevor
Source	Medline; PMC
abstract	INTRODUCTION: With the global spread of COVID-19, there is a compelling public health interest in quantifying who is at increased risk of contracting disease. Occupational characteristics, such as interfacing with the public and being in close quarters with other workers, not only put workers at high risk for disease, but also make them a nexus of disease transmission to the community. This can further be exacerbated through presenteeism, the term used to describe the act of coming to work despite being symptomatic for disease. Quantifying the number of workers who are frequently exposed to infection and disease in the workplace, and understanding which occupational groups they represent, can help to prompt public health risk response and management for COVID-19 in the workplace, and subsequent infectious disease outbreaks. METHODS: To estimate the number of United States workers frequently exposed to infection and disease in the workplace, national employment data (by Standard Occupational Classification) maintained by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) was merged with a BLS O*NET survey measure reporting how frequently workers in each occupation are exposed to infection or disease at work. This allowed us to estimate the number of United States workers, across all occupations, exposed to disease or infection at work more than once a month. RESULTS: Based on our analyses, approximately 10% (14.4 M) of United States workers are employed in occupations where exposure to disease or infection occurs at least once per week. Approximately 18.4% (26.7 M) of all United States workers are employed in occupations where exposure to disease or infection occurs at least once per month. While the majority of exposed workers are employed in healthcare sectors, other occupational sectors also have high proportions of exposed workers. These include protective service occupations (e.g. police officers, correctional officers, firefighters), office and administrative support occupations (e.g. couriers and messengers, patient service representatives), education occupations (e.g. preschool and daycare teachers), community and social services occupations (community health workers, social workers, counselors), and even construction and extraction occupations (e.g. plumbers, septic tank installers, elevator repair). CONCLUSIONS: The large number of persons employed in occupations with frequent exposure to infection and disease underscore the importance of all workplaces developing risk response plans for COVID-19. Given the proportion of the United States workforce exposed to disease or infection at work, this analysis also serves as an important reminder that the workplace is a key locus for public health interventions, which could protect both workers and the communities they serve.
has issue date	2020-04-28(xsd:dateTime)
bibo:doi	10.1371/journal.pone.0232452
bibo:pmid	32343747
has license	cc-by
sha1sum (hex)	7e2185cfb12ddc40ee3cadeebbd65985d288e6ee
schema:url	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232452
resource representing a document's title	Estimating the burden of United States workers exposed to infection or disease: A key factor in containing risk of COVID-19 infection
has PubMed Central identifier	PMC7188235
has PubMed identifier	32343747
schema:publication	PLoS One
resource representing a document's body	covid:7e2185cfb12ddc40ee3cadeebbd65985d288e6ee#body_text
is schema:about of	named entity 'Estimating' named entity 'burden' named entity 'infection' named entity 'key factor' named entity 'COVID' named entity 'infection' named entity 'domestic workers' named entity 'COVID' named entity 'retail stores' named entity 'infectious disease' named entity 'self-employed' named entity 'infectious disease' named entity 'pandemics' named entity 'Oregon' named entity 'infectious disease' named entity 'data analysis' named entity 'COVID' named entity 'Occupational Employment Statistics' named entity 'infectious diseases' named entity 'infectious agents' named entity 'bodily fluids' named entity 'transmission of disease' named entity 'survey sampling' named entity 'United States' named entity 'infection' named entity 'family member' named entity 'handwashing' named entity 'Singapore' named entity 'BLS' named entity '3.6.3' named entity 'infection' named entity 'healthcare sectors' named entity 'infection' named entity 'Doubleday' named entity 'infectious disease' named entity 'sick time' named entity 'infection' named entity 'risk assessments' named entity 'hygiene' named entity 'paid sick leave' named entity 'occupational exposure' named entity 'PPE' named entity 'infection' named entity 'infection' named entity 'healthcare sectors' named entity 'SARS-CoV-2' named entity 'United States' named entity 'healthcare workers' named entity 'O*NET' named entity 'United States' named entity 'survey data' named entity 'co-workers' named entity 'disease-causing agents' named entity 'infection' named entity 'community health' named entity 'infection' named entity 'pandemics' named entity 'infectious disease' named entity 'infection' named entity 'essential services' named entity 'COVID' named entity 'co-workers' named entity 'COVID-19' named entity 'public health' named entity 'BLS' named entity 'presenteeism' named entity 'human health' named entity 'presenteeism' named entity 'public health' named entity 'administrative support' named entity 'United States' named entity 'transmission of disease' named entity 'Idaho' named entity 'risk management' named entity 'BLS' named entity 'psychosocial hazards' named entity 'SARS-CoV-2' named entity 'construction site' named entity 'infection'

Faceted Search & Find service v1.13.91 as of Mar 24 2020

Alternative Linked Data Documents: Sponger | ODE Content Formats:

RDF

ODATA

Microdata

About

OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3229 as of Jul 10 2020, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Single-Server Edition (94 GB total memory)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software