196,115 research outputs found
Design and Control of Automated Truck Traffic at Motorway Ramps
No full textCivil Engineering and Geoscience
Occupational Health Services Integrated in Primary Health Care in Iran
No full textIntroduction A healthy workforce is vital for maintaining social and economic development on a global, national and local level. Around half of the world's people are economically active and spend at least one third of their time in their place of work while only 15% of workers have access to basic occupational health services. According to WHO report, since the early 1980s, health indicators in Iran have consistently improved, to the extent that it is comparable with those in developed countries. In this paper it was tried to briefly describe about Health care system and occupational Health Services as part of Primary Health care in Iran. Methods To describe the health care system in the country and the status of occupational health services to the workers and employers, its integration into Primary Health Care (PHC) and outlining the challenges in provision of occupational health services to the all working population. Findings Iran has fairly good health indicators. More than 85 percent of the population in rural and deprived regions, for instance, have access to primary healthcare services. The PHC centers provide essential healthcare and public-health services for the community. Providing, maintaining and improving of the workers' health are the main goals of occupational health services in Iran that are presented by different approaches and mostly through Workers' Houses in the PHC system. Conclusions Iran has developed an extensive network of PHC facilities with good coverage in most rural areas, but there are still few remote areas that might suffer from inadequate services. It seems that there is still no transparent policy to collaborate with the private sector, train managers or provide a sustainable mechanism for improving the quality of services. Finally, strengthening national policies for health at work, promotion of healthy work and work environment, sharing healthy work practices, developing updated training curricula to improve human resource knowledge including occupational health professionals are recommended
Active search for occupational diseases in agriculture : our experience
No full textIntroduction Due to the prevalence of family based and self-employed workers ‘run enterprises, remoteness, and distance from health care structures, rural workers are very often not provided with occupational health care at the workplace and usually obtain from rural General Practitioners the only access to health care. Unfortunately, rural GPs are not usually fully aware about the risks and related diseases present in rural enterprises. As a consequence, occupational diseases in the sector are very likely underreported, with consequences in term of lack of compensation of occupational diseases and lack of knowledge on the real burden of disease attributable to specific risk factors, affecting the identification of priorities for prevention. Accessibility For these reasons, we have developed activities addressed at creating a system adequate to increase the access of rural workers to occupational health surveillance. One of the activities is the active search for occupational diseases. This activity is based on the examination of the existing records, an effort toward the interpretation of early signals of disease and the identification of areas of possible underreporting. Based on the indications provided by these activities, we run specific actions addressed at the identifying occupational diseases. These activities are based on the systematic health surveillance of workers and on the linkage between different administrative data sources. The use of the new Regional SISS repository is anticipated, and a pilot experience is running. Some Results In the first three years of activity, we have significantly increased the number of reports of noise-induced hearing loss, and we have pointed on the existence of a specific biological risk not fully anticipated before. Key aspect of our approach is increase of the activities carried out at the enterprise level, creation of specific data base and collaboration among all the professionals involved, in particular physicians, veterinarians and agronomists
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
La dieta come elemento cardine della promozione della salute nei luoghi di lavoro nella ricerca scientifica e nella pratica : primi risultati del progetto EU FAHRE
No full textDIET AS A KEY ELEMENT OF HEALTH PROMOTION AT THE WORKPLACE IN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND PRACTICE. FIRST RESULTS OF THE EU PROJECT FAHRE. The globalization of markets have led to rapid changes in diet and lifestyle in the developed countries, where living standards have improved, and availability and variety of food has increased while physical activity decreases have led to an augment in chronic diseases (obesity and diabetes mellitus), cardiovascular diseases and some specific cancers. In this context there is a need to develop health promotion activities. Workers represent a very appropriate group for such activities because they are relatively homogeneous, easily reachable because they can be found together in the same place and time and the occupational physician has good knowledge of the of health status of individual worker. In this scenario, a renew interest must be posed to the relationship between diet and health. In this context our Group is participating at the FAHRE project (Food and
Health Research in Europe). The project aims to establish the state of the art of research at the interface of nutrition and health in the European Union, identifying its strengths and weaknesses in order to propose strategies to increase coordination and improve its functioning as a European Research Area
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Occupational exposure to biohazards and endotoxins among agricultural workers in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy
No full textPurpose. Farming is associated with a wide variety of hazardous exposures including physical, chemicals and biological agents. Animal farmers are exposed to dust, which contains microorganisms, mycotoxins, endotoxins, animal feed particles, allergens and chemical agents. Organic dust exposure is known to cause allergic and non-allergic rhinitis, and organic dust toxic syndrome. Measurements of serum cytokine levels have been performed as biomarkers and strong predictors of diseases in many epidemiologic studies. This study was undertaken to evaluate the relationship between occupational health hazards and serum pro-inflammatory cytokines among agricultural workers in north of Italy.
Methods. A pilot study was conducted in 2010 and One hundred subjects working in agricultural enterprises in the region of Lombardy were enrolled into the study. Serum cytokines including interleukin IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, IFN gamma and tumor necrosis factor alpha were measured. Cytokines were assessed by commercially available enzyme-linked-immunosorbent assay (ELISA).
Results of the study. Compared to control subjects, increased TNF-alpha, IL-8 and IL-10 levels were found in animal breeders, with a statistically significant relationship between type of job (breeder/non breeder workers) and increased serum pro-inflammatory cytokines. Results suggest that animal breeders might be at higher risk of biological hazards than other farmers with less contact to animals. Blood cytokine assay may also be useful to identify individual responsiveness to endotoxins at work place. The relationship between exposure to organic dust, microorganisms, endotoxins and other chemicals in the work place and disease needs further research
Dr. Glendon Swarthout
No full textHosted by Roger M. Busfield, MSU Assistant Professor of Speech and Theater, Meet the Author is designed to introduce a general audience to a contemporary author and their work through in-depth interviews. This episode features a conversation between Dr. Glendon Swarthout, prolific author and English professor at MSU, and assistant professors Sam S. Baskett and Theodore B. Strandness
Immunologic status of agricultural workers in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy
No full textPurpose. Farming is associated with a wide variety of hazardous exposures including physical, chemicals and biological agents. Animal farmers are exposed to dust which contains microorganisms, mycotoxins, endotoxins, animal feed particles, allergens and chemical agents. Organic dust exposure is known to cause allergic and non-allergic rhinitis, and organic dust toxic syndrome. This study was undertaken to evaluate the relationship between occupational health hazards and serum pro-inflammatory cytokines among agricultural workers, in particular we investigated whether animal breeders react differently to biological agents than non breeder farmers.
Methods. One hundred subjects working in agricultural enterprises in the region of Lombardy, were enrolled into the study in 2010. Serum cytokines including interleukin (IL)-6, IL-8, IL-10, IFNγ and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNFα) were measured. Cytokines were assessed by commercially available enzyme-linked-immunosorbent assay (ELISA).
Results of the study. Compared to control subjects, increased TNF-α, IL-8, and IL-10 levels were found in animal breeders, and a statistically significant relationship between type of job (breeder/non breeder workers) and increased serum pro-inflammatory cytokines. Results suggest that animal breeders might be at higher risk of occupational diseases and biological hazards than other farmers with less contact to animals
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