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Voice disorders and occupations
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Information on diagnosis, occupation, sex and age of new voice patients seen during a period of six months during 1992–93 were reported from the eight hospital departments of phoniatrics in Sweden, and among the voice patients the teaching professions were clearly overrepresented and so were social workers, lawyers and clergymen.Abstract:
Information on diagnosis, occupation, sex and age of new voice patients seen during a period of six months during 1992–93 were reported from the eight hospital departments of phoniatrics in Sweden. Data from altogether 1212 patients of working age were obtained. Phonasthenia was by far the most common diagnosis. Teaching professions were more common than any other occupational group. There were twice as many women as men seeking phoniatric care for voice problems. When a comparison was made with data from the Swedish Population and Housing Census 1990, it turned out that among the voice patients the teaching professions were clearly overrepresented, and so were social workers, lawyers and clergymen. The need for improved preventive voice care in the training programmes for these professions is quite clear.read more
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Prevalence of Voice Disorders in Teachers and the General Population
TL;DR: Being a teacher, being a woman, being between 40 and 59 years of age, having 16 or more years of education, and having a family history of voice disorders were each positively associated with having experienced a voice disorder in the past.
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Review: occupational risks for voice problems.
TL;DR: In this article, a review of the literature regarding the functional consequences of voice problems and occupational risk factors for them is provided, and the salient points are as follows: According to conservative estimates, approximately 28000000 workers in the US experience daily voice problems.
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Occupational Safety and Health Aspects of Voice and Speech Professions
TL;DR: On the basis of epidemiological and acoustic-physiological research, the presence of risk to vocal health can be substantiated and loading-related physiological changes (adaptation) may play a role in the occupational risk.
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Prevalence of voice problems in teachers
TL;DR: There is a need for further investigation of the causes of vocal dysfunction in teachers and for the development of educational programs aimed at preventing voice problems in this group of professional voice users.
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Voice problems at work: A challenge for occupational safety and health arrangement.
TL;DR: The occupational safety and health arrangements of voice and speech professionals are poorly developed as compared to many other professions, however, the existing legislation could be used to support efforts to improve the working conditions of this large but heterogeneous group.
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Prevalence of vocal symptoms among teachers compared with nurses: A questionnaire study
TL;DR: No positive correlation was found between age, length of teaching career, smoking or personality of the teachers and the frequency of symptoms, but high vocal demands in schoolwork due to the acoustic environment may lead to more frequent vocal symptoms among teachers.
La pathologie vocale chez l'enseignant
TL;DR: Sur 100 enseignants venus consulter en phoniatrie pour dysphonie, nous avons releve 11 dysphonies dysfonctionnelles sans lesion, 86 dysphonies avec lesions, 3 dysphonies post-chirurgicales.