| Title |
The health of women in the US fire service
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Women's Health, October 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6874-12-39 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Sara A Jahnke, WS Carlos Poston, C Keith Haddock, Nattinee Jitnarin, Melissa L Hyder, Cheryl Horvath |
| Abstract |
Despite statements from national fire service organizations, including the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) and the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC), promoting a diverse work force related to gender within the fire service, rates of women firefighters remain very low. Thus, research into why this extensive gender disparity continues is a high priority. Recent years have seen a number of large scale studies on firefighter health and health risk behaviors however, none have focused on the health of women firefighters and nearly all have eliminated women from the sample due to small sample size. Data from the present report is drawn from all females in a large, randomly selected cohort of firefighters in an epidemiological study designed to assess health outcomes and health risk behaviors identified as most important to the fire service. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 33% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 67% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 33% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 113 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 16 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 15 | 13% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 13 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 11 | 10% |
| Researcher | 10 | 9% |
| Other | 19 | 17% |
| Unknown | 30 | 26% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 16 | 14% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 15 | 13% |
| Sports and Recreations | 14 | 12% |
| Social Sciences | 13 | 11% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 7 | 6% |
| Other | 15 | 13% |
| Unknown | 34 | 30% |
Attention Score in Context
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