Anthropometrics and Ergonomics in Pregnant Women

Almeida, Henrique de Amorim; Teixeira Ascenso, Rita Margarida; Oliveira, Eunice

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Anthropometrics and Ergonomics in Pregnant Women

2018Book part

dc.contributor.author	Almeida, Henrique de Amorim
dc.contributor.author	Teixeira Ascenso, Rita Margarida
dc.contributor.author	Oliveira, Eunice
dc.date.accessioned	2025-10-21T18:14:08Z
dc.date.available	2025-10-21T18:14:08Z
dc.date.issued	2018
dc.description.abstract	Pregnancy is a women life event that impacts her own and offspring’s life; surprisingly, few systematic and scientific maternal information is available in the literature for anthropometric and ergonomic purposes. Regarding ergonomics, some authors state that guidelines should be design for pregnant women. These guidelines may consider anthropometric issues such as changes in weight and distribution of mass, which influence mobility, home and labour performance, mood and cognition. Anthropometrics allows the body measurement, but in pregnancy women are sparingly characterized, besides Body Mass Index and few other parameters. Ergonomics not only aids in the design process of work or home layouts, but also contains several evaluation tools to determine the level of risk of musculoskeletal disorders of daily or labour tasks. Some of these tools are very specific and others have certain conditions that should be met before using them. The purpose of this study is to present an overview of guidelines and discuss which anthropometric and ergonomic evaluation tools may be used, and under which conditions can be implemented in pregnant women.	eng
dc.identifier.citation	Almeida, H.A., Ascenso, R.M.T., Oliveira, E. (2018). Anthropometrics and Ergonomics in Pregnant Women. In: Brandão, S., Da Roza, T., Ramos, I., Mascarenhas, T. (eds) Women's Health and Biomechanics. Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics, vol 29. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71574-2_8
dc.identifier.doi	10.1007/978-3-319-71574-2_8
dc.identifier.isbn	9783319715735
dc.identifier.isbn	9783319715742
dc.identifier.issn	2212-9391
dc.identifier.issn	2212-9413
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/14350
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.peerreviewed	yes
dc.publisher	Springer International Publishing
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dc.relation.ispartof	Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics
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dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject	Feminist Anthropology
dc.subject	Maternal and Child Health
dc.subject	Physical-Biological Anthropology
dc.subject	Obstetrics
dc.subject	Medical Anthropology
dc.subject	Midwifery
dc.title	Anthropometrics and Ergonomics in Pregnant Women	eng
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