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occupies the fifth position in the group of
forty-five and sixty-four years of age.
According to the scientific literature the
occurrence of asthma can be related to or
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aggravated by exposition in the work area. The
expositions in the work area have been
implicated in the search of explanations of
elevated frequencies of cases of asthma in
adults. There exist over three hundred agents
associated to the beginning and/or exacerbation
of asthma.
Why is this type of study important?
Well, the beauty salon workers are exposed to
different agents associated with asthma. This
study would allow us to reach the population
and in its majority self-employed that have not
been studied previously. In fact, there are no
data in terms of the health of this population
that are self-employed.
And the objectives of this study would be
to describe the work conditions in the beauty
salons, evaluate the prevalence and the risk
factors for asthma among the workers of beauty
salons and evaluate the exposure to products as