336 June 2012, Vol. 102, No. 6 SAMJ Imprisonment and torture of doctors in Bahrain To the Editor: During the months of February and March 2011, as part of the ‘Arab Spring’, protest action and demonstrations took place in Manama, capital of the Kingdom of Bahrain. When the authorities sought to put down the action, many protesters were injured and some died of their injuries. Those who were inj...

OBJECTIVES We documented barriers to workers' compensation and injury-related medical care faced by homecare or Personal Assistance Services (PAS) workers. We explored differences between independent providers and agency-employed workers. METHODS We conducted in-depth, semi-structured interviews with a diverse sample of 38 injured workers. Participants were primarily female and racial-ethnic ...

OBJECTIVES Although compensation for occupational injuries and diseases is guaranteed in almost all nations, countries vary greatly with respect to how they organize workers' compensation systems. In this paper, we focus on three aspects of workers' compensation insurance in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries - types of systems, employers' funding mechanisms,...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine the associations between the type of return-to-work and demographic and injury-related characteristics among South Korean workers with permanent disabilities due to occupational injury. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SUBJECTS A total of 13,078 injured workers aged 20-55 years who were legally registered in 2005 as having permanent disabilit...

purpose: to report and evaluate the characteristics of patients referred to the emergency department of labbafinejad medical center with work-related eye injuries during 2005.  methods: in this descriptive study, an available sample of patients with work-related eye injures were assessed. demographic characteristics, causes of ocular trauma, and use of work safety devices were main evaluated va...

The magnitude of migrant workers reached 274 million in 2014. Since the social welfare system of China is locality-based depending on the household registration (hukou) system, migrant workers are excluded from the urban public health service system (1). They are especially vulnerable to three health threats: infectious diseases, maternal health, and occupational diseases and injuries (2). To p...