The increasing precariousness of work, its concentration among vulnerable groups, and the divide between secure, primary sector workers and the expendable army of casual and contract labour is well documented. Much less attention has been directed to the other side of precariousness – the practices that increase the costs of job loss for workers in the primary labour market. In an era of low of...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND In many developing countries, such as India, information on human resources in the health sector is incomplete and unreliable. This prevents effective workforce planning and management. This paper aims to address this deficit by producing a more complete picture of India's health workforce. METHODS Both the Census of India and nationally representative household surve...

BACKGROUND The data collected by sanitary-epidemiological stations in 2005-2014 were analyzed to determine the incidence rates of borreliosis Lyme disease in the West Pomerania group of workers exposed to tick bites. MATERIAL AND METHODS It was assumed that an adequate comparison of official epidemiological data with the data concerning the number of exposed people, is an indispensable condit...

The first evaluation criterion is the level of confidence that dismantlement has taken place produced by each option. The level of confidence that a particular monitoring option provides that warhead dismantlement is actually occurring depends on the level of information obtained from that particular option and the ease with which that option can be spoofed. Short of direct observation or remot...

According to the Central Brain Tumor Registry in the United States (CBTRUS), there were approximately 18,000 new cases of meningioma diagnosed annually from 2004 to 2006. Currently, the estimated prevalence in the United States is that there are 170,000 people with meningioma, because of the prolonged natural history of meningiomas and because asymptomatic elderly patients and those with signif...

BACKGROUND Because of the demographic changes, appropriate measures are needed to prevent early exit from work and to encourage workers to prolong their working life. To date, few studies have been performed on the factors motivating continuing to work after the official age of retirement. In addition, most of those studies were based on quantitative data. The aims of this study were to examine...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the feasibility of implementing a physician based surveillance system of occupational respiratory diseases (PROPULSE) in Québec with regard to physician participation rate, characteristics of reported cases, and comparison with official statistics from the Workers' Compensation Board (WCB). METHODS All chest physicians and allergists in Québec were asked to report suspec...

OBJECTIVES Research has consistently revealed a negative relationship between chronological age and promotion orientation, that is, the motivational orientation toward approaching possible gains. In addition, experimental research has demonstrated that activating positive self-relevant stereotypes (e.g., for men, the stereotype that men are good at math) can stimulate increases in promotion ori...

The twenty-five fold expansion of oil palm cultivation in Sarawak over the past two and a half decades constitutes the most rapid and radical transformation of the agrarian landscape ever seen in that state. From 23,000 ha in 1980, mostly in government schemes, the area planted with oil palm has increased to over 580,000 ha in 2006, mostly in private estates, closing in on an official target of...

The study was to determine the role of Dietary diversity (DD), household food security (HFS), and agricultural biodiversity (AB) on stunted growth in children. Two cross-sectional studies were undertaken 6 months apart. Interviews were done with mothers/caregivers and anthropometric measurements of children 24-59 months old. HFS was assessed by household food insecurity access scale (HFIAS). A ...