ArticleBritish journal of industrial medicine1987
Pregnant women's working conditions and their changes during pregnancy: a national study in France.
Article in British journal of industrial medicine, 1987. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Work activities and risk of prematurity, low birth weight and pre-eclampsia: an updated review with meta-analysis.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2013Pooled it
- Shift work and pregnancy outcomes: a systematic review with meta-analysis of currently available epidemiological studies.BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology · 2011Pooled it
- Risk of prematurity, low birthweight and pre-eclampsia in relation to working hours and physical activities: a systematic review.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2007Pooled it
- Multiple maternal occupational exposures during pregnancy and newborn size at birth: analysis of the ELFE cohort, a French longitudinal study of children.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2026Article
- Implementation, mechanisms and effects of maternity protection legislation: a realist narrative review of the literature.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2018Review
- Exposure to occupational hazards for pregnancy and sick leave in pregnant workers: a cross-sectional study.Annals of occupational and environmental medicine · 2017Article
- Provisional recommended weight limits for manual lifting during pregnancy.Human factors · 2014Article
- Clinical guidelines for occupational lifting in pregnancy: evidence summary and provisional recommendations.American journal of obstetrics and gynecology · 2013Review
- Social inequality in birth outcomes in Korea, 1995-2008.Journal of Korean medical science · 2013Article
- Bone mineral density changes during pregnancy in actively exercising women as measured by quantitative ultrasound.Archives of gynecology and obstetrics · 2012Article
- Preterm Delivery Risk in Relation to Maternal Occupational and Leisure Time Physical Activity Among Thai Women.Asian biomedicine : research, reviews and news · 2009Article
- Physical activity and preterm birth: a literature review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2009Review
- Maternal work and birth outcome disparities.Maternal and child health journal · 2008Article
- A review of physical activity patterns in pregnant women and their relationship to psychological health.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2006Review
- Guidelines of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists for exercise during pregnancy and the postpartum period.British journal of sports medicine · 2003Article
- Physical activity and pregnancy outcome. Review and recommendations.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 1997Review
- The risk of prematurity and small-for-gestational-age birth in Mexico City: the effects of working conditions and antenatal leave.American journal of public health · 1996Article
- Pregnancy related sickness absence in a Swedish county, 1985-87.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 1994Article
- Characteristics of maternal employment during pregnancy: effects on low birthweight.American journal of public health · 1991Article
- Adverse working conditions and premature delivery.American journal of public health · 1991Article
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Abstract
In a study of 2387 employed women who had worked for more than three months of their pregnancy the data were extracted from a survey carried out on a national sample of births in France in 1981. Manual, service and shop workers had a higher preterm delivery rate than professional, administrative, or clerical workers. Assembly line work was associated with a higher preterm delivery rate even when production workers only were considered. Cumulated physically tiring working conditions--standing work, carrying of heavy loads, assembly line work, and considerable physical effort--were related to higher preterm delivery and low birthweight rate. During pregnancy, sickness absences were commoner when the working conditions were arduous. Changes in the working conditions were less clearly related to arduous work than sick leaves; they were not significantly more frequent for standing work or for assembly line work. Refusals from employers to grant favourable arrangements were more frequent when the working conditions were tiring and sick leaves were more common among women whose requests had been refused.
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