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Work and health of flight attendants: a review

Abstract

Introduction:

with the increase in the number of flights and passengers, the tasks carried out by flight attendants become more complex, and may cause overload and damage to their health and performance.

Objective:

to identify articles and systematize information published in scientific journals related to flight attendants' health impact of the physical, environmental and organizational factors of their work.

Method:

systematic review of the scientific literature, in Portuguese and English, using the keywords "aircraft", "cabin", "air transportation", "flight attendant" and "work" in ScienceDirect, PubMed, Scopus, ProQuest and SciELO databases, published between 1983-2013.

Results:

65 articles met the inclusion criteria. There was a predominance of studies focusing on physical factors and/or factors related to health/disease and related to job satisfaction, with few studies addressing work organization.

Conclusion:

the studies investigated the relationship between the work environment and the health of flight attendants using limited approaches. No studies were found adopting an analysis methodology that had allowed stablishing relationships between determining factors of workload and their impacts on the flight attendants health.

Keywords:
flight attendant; work; health; review; commercial aviation

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