Health status of hotel workers with special reference to high risk practices and STDs
Pawar, A.T.; Kakrani, V.A.
Indian Journal of Public Health 51(1): 50-51
2007
ISSN/ISBN: 0019-557X PMID: 18232143 Document Number: 207091
A cross sectional study was conducted on health status of hotel workers of Pune city. Out of estimated 1000 hotel workers 516 were selected by stratified random sampling technique. The study revealed that 71.5% hotel workers were suffering from one or other type of morbid condition. Anemia was the commonest morbidity with prevalence of 40.3%. 187 (36.2%) of hotel workers had extramarital sexual relations. A total of 77 (14.9%) hotel workers were having STDs at the time of study.
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