More than 1,000 industrial amputees at the Ontario Workers' Compensation Board were reviewed. The study investigated the current employment status of amputees and the factors that influenced successful return to work post-amputation. The data obtained from a mailed questionnaire was analysed by the Statistical Analysis System. The results revealed that 89% of amputees returned to work after an ...

We report on an investigation of the effects of hardware performance, application design, and cognitive demands on user productivity and perceptions. This investigation focuses on clerical tasks typical of those activities that many lower level organization workers encounter. This was accomplished by engaging one hundred seventy-five representative participants in a field-based experiment. Part...

The Great Recession had substantial effects on the labor market in the United States, as elsewhere. To what extent did secondary students' employment decline during this time? Which students are leaving the labor market? Are reductions in employment concentrated in particular jobs? To answer these questions, we use data from the Monitoring the Future study, an ongoing study of secondary student...

OBJECTIVE To assess the preparedness of health workers in St James, Jamaica, to respond to natural disasters. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was conducted on a 25% quota sample of hospital and health department staff in St James in 2005 (n = 307). Awareness of and attitudes to disaster management policies, plans and training and how these influenced their response in Hurricane Ivan were eva...

BACKGROUND Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSD) are a major cause for concern in public health and the main causes of sick leave. Treatments for WMSD have given disappointing results; prevention is the best strategy, but results of preventive measures have not been consistent. To the best of our knowledge there are few studies in literature that evaluated the impact of a specific progr...

BACKGROUND Occupational sedentary behaviour is an important contributor to overall sedentary risk. There is limited evidence for effective workplace interventions to reduce occupational sedentary time and increase light activity during work hours. The purpose of the study was to determine if participatory workplace interventions could reduce total sedentary time, sustained sedentary time (bouts...

This lapse in thinking about how hospitals can use the Internet is most unfortunate. Wedded to advances in enterprise computing, network computing applications have the potential for markedly improving hospital customer service, as well as markedly reducing hospital clerical and administrative expenses, a topic of vital concern to Boards and senior management in this exceptionally harsh and unf...

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BACKGROUND In epidemiological studies on neck-shoulder disorders, physical examination by health professionals, although more expensive, is usually considered a better method of data collection than self-administered questionnaires on symptoms. However, little is known on the comparison of these two methods of data collection. The agreement between self-administered questionnaires and the physi...

The prevalence of asbestos bodies was measured in lung sections in a necropsy series carried out at the London Hospital (1965-66) after exclusion of all known asbestos factory workers and cases of asbestosis and of mesothelioma. Associations were sought between the presence and number of asbestos bodies with the patients' sex, domiciliary address, occupation, industry, and diseases recorded at ...