Preemployment multiphasic screening in an urban manpower training program.
Preemployment health examinations have long occupied a central role in industrial medicine, providing company physicians with baseline health status and physical limitations for each employee. We evaluated a similar multiphasic screening examination in 662 young, minority applicants to an urban manpower training program. Resulting from this screening was a substantial number of patients with positive serology (1%), positive gonorrhea cultures (3%), excessive daily ethanol ingestion associated with liver enlargement (13%), decreased visual acuity (24%) and dental caries (23%). These findings are markedly different than those reported for preemployment screening in industry, suggesting the need for a specific health screening protocol for applicants to manpower training programs.
D000328:Adult; D004493:Education; D004651:Employment; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009098:Multiphasic Screening; D009787:Occupational Medicine; D010808:Physical Examination; D014505:Urban Population