Extensive distribution of hazardous substances in food chain and the deleterious effect of their residues on public health are a great concern of the society. Chicken eggs, as one of the most popular food commodities, in different parts of Tehran (Iran) were analyzed for two groups of hazardous substances including some organochlorine pesticides (OC) such as aldrin, lindane, dieldrin, dichlorod...

Unexpected events require a lot of emergency supplies, such as severe natural disasters, public health emergencies, public safety incidents and military conflict. Materials for emergency and war constraints play a key role in the success or failure. In this paper, the collection and purchasing, storage and management, transportation and distribution of emergency supplies as three aspects of the...

© GASPP 2004 This is the fifth in a series of policy briefs commissioned by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland which has been produced by GASPP on aspects of globalisation and social policy. GASPP is a research and public information programme based in four centres in Finland, UK, Canada and India. The policy briefs are published by STAKES (National Research and Development Centre for ...

abstract aims: health, safety and environment is an integrated and convergence system and also a synergistic arrangement of human resources, facilities and equipment. this study aimed to determine the relationship of safety climate and perception of risk with the awareness level of hse management system among oil refineries employees. instrument & methods: this cross-sectional study was perform...

In the conditions of market infrastructure for the transformation of medical services, there is an objective need to build effective insurance protection of the population against risks associated with loss of health. Using a systematic approach, the problem of combining compulsory and voluntary health insurance is investigated, a theoretical conceptualization of the concept of “financial mecha...