Playground injuries are a major public health problem. Laboratory studies have recommended sand, pearock, synthetic materials, or wood chips as protective surfaces beneath equipment, and epidemiological studies have confirmed that hard surfaces are dangerous. However, some questions remain about grass. To compare the protection oVered by grass and sand, public and residential playgrounds need t...

INTRODUCTION Personalized, global pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) management of patients with COPD is effective, regardless of the place in which this rehabilitation is provided. The objective of this retrospective observational study was to study the long-term outcome of exercise capacity and quality of life during management of patients with COPD treated by home-based PR. METHODS Home-based P...

Smoking in the home remains a key source of exposure to secondhand smoke for non-smokers, particularly since the UK public smoking ban in 2007. A systematic literature review was conducted to identify all UK evidence on the impact of secondhand smoke exposure in the home on health and behavioural outcomes in non-smoker occupants. MEDLINE, EMBASE and the Cochrane Library were searched to identif...

Facial trauma may impose functional disabilities, such as difficulties with breathing, eating, drinking, and speaking. Moreover, esthetic changes might cause the patient social and psychological dysfunction. Fractured facial bones may occur following isolated facial trauma, or as a part of multiple injuries trauma that might be caused by: road accidents, domestic or street falls, physical viole...

DAYTIME SLEEPINESS IS WIDESPREAD AND HAS A NEGATIVE IMPACT ON EVERYDAY LIFE.1 UP TO 20% OF ALL TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS IN INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES ARE sleep related.2-4 Connor et al3 have shown that driving between 02:00 and 05:00 multiplies by 5.6 the risk of traffic accidents. Despite this, many people persistently repeat this dangerous behavior because of financial reasons in professional drivers5 or ...

objectives this study is designed to investigate the epidemiology of home-related injuries in kashan, iran. background injury is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the world, and the home is one of the most common places for these types of injuries. patients and methods this investigation is a retrospective cross-sectional study on existing data from the data bank of the tr...