The issue of the essence and peculiarities international legal organizational technical regulation sphere safety occupational hygiene was considered. significance reasons prerequisites, which collectively led to a renewed understanding activities International Labor Organization in today's complex conditions, noted. It found that fundamental basis modern activity this organization study princip...

OBJECTIVE Nosocomial infections are the main problems rising morbidity and mortality in health care settings. Hand hygiene is the most effective method for preventing these infections. In this study, we aimed to investigate the factors related with hand hygiene adherence at a private hospital in Turkey. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study was conducted between March and June 2010 at a private ho...

The first Chair of Occupational Health in the United Kingdom was established by Manchester University in 1945 and held by Ronald Lane, a consultant physician and experienced factor doctor. In his department, occupational medicine was taught as a clinical discipline to both undergraduates and postgraduates. Research was based mostly on clinical observation of workpeople in the field or as hospit...

OBJECTIVE To study trends of dissertation and thesis production in workers' health in Brazil. METHODS Observation units were dissertations and theses developed by Brazilian researchers in national and foreign graduate programs. Theses and dissertations were identified in previously compiled works, LILACS and Capes database. Search keywords were workers' health, ergonomics, occupational hygien...

BACKGROUND The pharmaceutical industry employs >350 000 people worldwide in operations including research and development (R&D), manufacturing, sales and marketing. Workers employed in R&D and manufacturing sectors are potentially exposed to drug substances in the workplace that are designed to modify physiology and also to chemical precursors that are potentially hazardous to health. Pharmaceu...

OBJECTIVES A medical surveillance programme was introduced into Ontario for workers exposed to diisocyanates in 1983, but no mandated surveillance programme is in effect in this province for other occupational respiratory sensitisers. This study assesses changes in incidence and severity of compensated claims for occupational asthma (OA) due to diisocyanates compared with other causes, which ha...

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1 Magdalena Baymakova1, Kamen Plochev1, Ivan Dikov1, Georgi T. Popov1, Raynichka Mihaylova-Garnizova1, Valentina Kovaleva2, Todor Kundurdjiev3 1Department of Infectious Diseases, Military Medical Academy, 2Center of Military Epidemiology and Hygiene, Military Medical Academy, 3Department of Occupational Health, Faculty of Public Health, Medical University, Sofia, Bulgaria Fever of Unknown Origi...

The University of Georgia, College of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Science University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, Division of Environmental Health Sciences The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, School of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene University of Washington, Seattle, Department of Environmental Health School of Medicine, University o...