[Results of fitness studies in females with transportation jobs]

Abstract

In the years 1977-1983 the Transport Medical Service of the GDR carried out 2 624 gynecological fitness examinations of 3 operating groups (women drivers, women production workers and women clerks). Findings and diseases from the gynecological point of view having consequences on capacity, could be discovered in 26% of the women examined. Correlations between work factors and gynecological diseases could not be found. With regard to fitness relevance of the findings displacements and phlogistic diseases range first.