環境職業生殖危害-半導體員工生育追蹤性研究
Other Title
Environmental and occupational reproductive hazards
– A follow-up study of fer tility among semiconductor workers
– A follow-up study of fer tility among semiconductor workers
Date Issued
2000-07-31
Date
2000-07-31
Author(s)
陳保中
DOI
892320B002126
Abstract
Two nation-wide epidemiological surveys for
infertility problems have been conducted but no
epidemiological studies for subfecundity have been
published in Taiwan. There were several subfecundity
studies applied into environmental and occupational
settings in American and European countries. The
objective of this study was a feasibility assessment of
establishing an occupational cohort in semiconductor
industry to conduct a fecundability study. We
collected the labor insurance data of the eight major
semiconductor companies in Taiwan and, then, linked
to the marriage and divorcé registration data and the
birth registration data from the Ministry of Interior.
There were 47,374 workers in total including 19,802
males and 27,572 females. The average ages in male
and female were 33 and 28 years old, respectively.
When the workers entered the company, most of them
were in adequate marriage age and had their own
children a few years after marriage. It is worthy of
probing into the details about 6-10% of marital
workers without their own children yet. There was no
significant difference about the distribution of age,
marital status, and current fertility rate among the
company. This study demonstrated the feasibility of an
occupational cohort of fertility and that the established
study base can provide useful information on
environmental risk to subfertility. However, we need
concern our culture background and personal privacy
and how to promote the worker’ motivation of
cooperation in the future follow-up study.
Subjects
data-linkage
feasibility study
occupational
cohort
cohort
reproductive hazard
semiconductor industry
Publisher
臺北市：國立臺灣大學公共衛生學院職業醫學與工業衛生研究所
Type
report
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