%0 Journal Article
%T Encuestas de condiciones de trabajo y salud: su utilizaci¨®n en la investigaci¨®n en salud laboral
%A Itat¨ª I£¿iguez
%A Mar¨ªa Jos¨¦
%A Agudelo-Su¨¢rez
%A Andr¨¦s A.
%A Campos-Serna
%A Javier
%A Cornelio
%A Cecilia I.
%J Medicina y Seguridad del Trabajo
%D 2012
%I Escuela Nacional de Medicina del Trabajo
%R 10.4321/S0465-546X2012000300005
%X objective: to analyse the use of the working and health conditions survey (whcs) in occupational health research. method: a literature review about working and health conditions survey (whcs) was conducted in pubmed and cisdoc in the period 1990-2009 including research articles. in selected papers objectives, main issues and gaps were identified. results: 627 publications were located and we analysed 15 papers about whcs. employment conditions and health were the most explored issues (n=14). considering working conditions, ergonomic (n=11) and psychosocial risk factors (n=10) were more described. 9 papers analysed psychosomatic symptoms and 7 papers described self-perceived health status. only 4 papers included gender perspective and 3 papers incorporated social class within the analysis. research on workers' participation (n=1) and prevention (n=2) was scarcely. conclusions: scientific literature based on the whcs show that some topics have been practically unexplored, such as workers participation, preventive interventions, and labour and familiar conciliation. the introduction of a gender perspective, migration and social class in the analysis of the scientific articles would be well acknowledged.
%K data collection
%K surveys
%K working conditions
%K employment
%K health.
%U http://scielo.isciii.es/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0465-546X2012000300005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en