AAMJ, Vol.9, N. 3, September, 2011, Suppl. ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ 211 REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH PROBLEMS AMONG WOMEN WORKING IN INDUSTRIES * Entesar M.M Makhlouf, **Asmaa G.M Mohamed ***Kamal M. Zahran *Entesar M. Younes *Eman Rashad * Obstetric and Gynecological Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Assuit University ** Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Assuit University ***Obstetrics and Gynecological Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Assuit University ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ABSTRACT Reproductive toxicants may contribute to a spectrum of adverse effects on reproductive health. These effects include menstrual irregularities, early or delayed puberty, infertility, sub fertility, early pregnancy loss, fetal death, impaired fetal growth, low birth weight, premature birth, and structural (e.g., cardiac defect) or functional (e.g., learning disability) birth defects. The aim of this study was to assess the reproductive health problems among women working in industries. This was descriptive analytical observational study with Case control study design. The study sample consisted of (200) women one hundred women working recruited as a control group in Assiut University. Second group was also One hundred women who workings in Fertilizer Company and Pharmaceutical plants for one year, start from the first of January 2009 until the end of December 2009. The result of study showed that the mean age of women were 41.57±9.99years, the majority of women 60.4% in control group versus 16.6% in study group had normal vaginal delivery, more than one third in control group versus more than three quadrant in study group had previous abortion, it was found that there are statistically significant differences between groups according to Postdate, Statistical significant p value (<0.001*) between study and control group. The same statistically significant differences showed between the study and control group as regarding to female infertility and reproductive malignancies.