Bibliometric Study of Technology and Occupational Health in Healthcare Sector: A Worldwide Trend to the Future

Esther Vaquero-Álvarez, Antonio Cubero-Atienza, Pilar Ruiz-Martínez, Manuel Vaquero-Abellán, María Dolores Redel Mecías and Pilar Aparicio-Martínez
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Esther Vaquero-Álvarez: SRH Kliniken Landkreis Sigmaringen, Hohenzollernstraße 40, 72488 Sigmaringen, Germany
Antonio Cubero-Atienza: Departamento Ingeniería Rural, Ed Leonardo da Vinci, Campus de Rabanales, Universidad de Córdoba, 14071 Córdoba, Spain
Pilar Ruiz-Martínez: GC24 Clinical and Molecular Microbiology, Instituto Maimónides, Facultad Medicina y Enfermería, Campus de Menéndez Pidal, Universidad de Córdoba, 14071 Córdoba, Spain
Manuel Vaquero-Abellán: GC12 Clinical and Epidemiological Research in Primary Care, Instituto Maimónides, Campus de Menéndez Pidal, Universidad de Córdoba, 14071 Córdoba, Spain
María Dolores Redel Mecías: Departamento Ingeniería Rural, Ed Leonardo da Vinci, Campus de Rabanales, Universidad de Córdoba, 14071 Córdoba, Spain
Pilar Aparicio-Martínez: GC12 Clinical and Epidemiological Research in Primary Care, Instituto Maimónides, Campus de Menéndez Pidal, Universidad de Córdoba, 14071 Córdoba, Spain

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 18, 1-22

Abstract: Since the eighties, technological tools have modified how people interact in their environment. At the same time, occupational safety and health measures have been widely applied. The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work considers that information and communication technologies are the main methods to achieve the goals proposed to improve working life and the dissemination of good practices. The principal objective was to determine the trends of publications focused on these technologies and occupational safety in the healthcare sector during the last 30 years. A bibliometric study was carried out. The 1021 documents showed an increased trend per country, especially for the United States ( p < 0.001) and year ( p < 0.001). The citations per year showed significant differences between citations of articles published before 2007 ( p < 0.001). The year was also linked to the increase or decrease of articles (72.2%) and reviews (14.9%) ( p < 0.001). The analysis of journal co-citations also showed that the main journals (such as Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology) were linked to other important journals and had a major part in the clusters formed. All these findings were discussed in the manuscript and conclusions were drawn.

Keywords: healthcare workers; ICTs; occupational health; scientometric analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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