background: during the last decades, to assess the risk factors of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (wmsds), enormous observational methods have been developed. rapid entire body assessment (reba) and quick exposure check (qec) are two general methods in this field. this study aimed to compare ergonomic risk assessment outputs from qec and reba in terms of agreement in distribution of pos...

Objective: To determine costs related to living with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and to identify the association between health status—as measured by the Health Status Questionnaire short form-36 (SF-36) and the disease specific index Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ)— and the social impact of RA. Methods: A prospective cohort study was carried out on 81 patients with RA who completed four c...

background: the area of contaminated lands exposed to the health risk of environmental pollutants is a matter of argument. in this study, a new method was developed to estimate the amount of area that is exposed to higher than normal levels of cr, mn, and v. methods: overall, 170 soil samples were collected from the upper 10 cm of soil in an arid area in central part of iran in semnan province....

22 In China, the exposure of children to particulate toxics, like organics, has been poorly 23 investigated mainly due to the technical challenges in sampling and analysis. This 24 article reports indoor and outdoor concentrations of PM2.5-bound polycyclic aromatic 25 hydrocarbons (PAHs), oxygenated-PAHs (OPAHs) and phthalate esters (PAEs) 26 monitored for 13 days in May 2012 in two classrooms,...

Risk assessment, an approach for organizing information about hazards to health, safety, and the environment, provides a framework for gauging the threat to child health from environmental pollutants. A qualitative risk assessment has 4 components: hazard identification, dose-response assessment, exposure assessment, and risk characterization. In a risk assessment, consideration can be given to...

Health risk assessment procedure provides a clear and systematic form of quantitative (or semi-quantitative) description of environmental health impact. It is well known that this approach is burdened with various types of uncertainties of different origin and nature. Therefore, the results of risk assessment should always contain both the "number" and the "measure of uncertainty". The problem ...

This comprehensive and easy-to-read treatment of the various facets, history, and criticisms involved in risk assessment for environmental health focuses on tools and approaches used for humans in an environment involving potential chemical hazards. The first part introduces the underlying principles and techniques of the field, and the second examines case studies in terms of different risk as...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this work was to provide a comprehensive overview of the evolution of the health technology assessment (HTA) concept in the scientific literature through a scientometric approach. METHODS A literature search was conducted, by selecting publications, as well as news from the media, containing "health technology assessment" in their title, abstracts, or keywords. We then u...