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...

The aims of this article are to review the situation of occupational health and safety and to describe research priority in this field in Thailand. Thailand is one of newly industrialized countries in Southeast Asia. Approximately half of the working population is still in agriculture. The data from Thai Workmen's Compensation Fund showed that incidence rate of occupational injuries and disease...

OBJECTIVES An 'information gap' has been identified regarding the effects of chronic disease on occupational injury risk. We investigated the association of ischaemic heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, depression and asthma with acute occupational injury in a cohort of manufacturing workers from 1 January 1997 through 31 December 2007. METHODS We used administrative data on real-time inju...

Humanitarian relief work is a growing field characterized by ongoing exposure to primary and secondary trauma, which has implications for workers' occupational mental health. This paper reviews and summarizes research to date on mental health effects of relief work. Twelve studies on relief workers and 5 studies on organizations that employ relief workers are examined to determine whether relie...

This article was acceptedfor publication March 11, 1997. P ost-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) occurs in up to 58% of persons exposed to potentially lifethreatening trauma (American Psychiatric Association [APA], 1994). It is characterized by intrusive and distressing thoughts, nightmares, avoidance of and physiological reactivity to trauma-related stimuli, insomnia, and increased startle resp...

BACKGROUND The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is developing rapidly, with many foreign construction, farm and industrial workers. AIMS To assess the epidemiology of occupational injury hospitalizations using a trauma registry. METHODS Surgical admissions from March 2003 to April 2005 were recorded in the registry at the main trauma hospital in Al Ain city (population 348,000). Prevention-relate...

AIMS Eye trauma in the older population can lead to blindness. Sleep deterioration is associated with increased risk of occupational injuries. The purpose of the study was to assess the epidemiology of ocular trauma in the elderly population and to evaluate the relationship between eye trauma and sleep quality. SETTINGS AND DESIGN This was a cross-sectional, observational hospital based study...

Patients with multiple personality and dissociative disorders have learned to create an alternate identity system, originally designed to protect them from experiencing the pain of inescapable, unrelieved trauma and abuse. The resulting amnesia and identity confusion cause significant dysfunction in daily living. Issues of trust and control are paramount, and occupational therapists are challen...

Fifty-five Navajo uranium workers and residents from the Navajo Reservation in Arizona and New Mexico were interviewed in a community study to determine the psychosocial effects of uncompensated occupational illnesses. Summary findings indicate that psychological trauma, resulting from long-term occupational illnesses and environmental degradation, was as serious a repercussion as physical trau...