background: musculoskeletal disorders (msds) are common among employees throughout the world, particularly in high risk groups such as nurses. objective: to determine the prevalence of msds among nurses in a large hospital in ahwaz, southwestern iran, and to examine its correlation with gender, age, shift working, years at service and smoking. methods: using a self-reported questionnaire-based ...

In modern conditions, the number of various employees in field education is increasing, whose work connected with overstrain voice apparatus, psycho-emotional load, unfavorable mode, which made it necessary to study functional state peculiarities process and risks harmful effects on health. Among occupational diseases, there are diseases vocal apparatus an nature, such as pharyngitis, laryngiti...

Background and Purpose: Occupational diseases (ODs) work-related are important issues that affect work life involve economic, medical, social, ethical dimensions. The aim of this study was to develop a scale measure the attitudes physicians working or likely on diagnosis notification ODs toward occupational health OD. Methods: This planned as development study. During process, item pool determi...

BACKGROUND Data on occupational diseases constitute an important element of the bulk of information on the health of workers as well as on the sanitary conditions prevailing in their work environment. Yearly records of the incidence of occupational diseases, and the annual analyses of the incidence data render it possible to identify high-risk groups, so that preventive measures can be taken to...

Macaca fascicularis Trachypithecus cristatus Nasalis have been detected from wildlife in many countries, however their role as reservoirs is still poorly understood [1-3]. Leptospirosis can result in economic losses in domesticated animals and has the potential to be an important zoonotic disease of humans [4]. Leptospires were first isolated from rats in 1917 and it is widely acknowledged that...