The American Occupational Therapy Association's Centennial Vision articulates the strategic goals for the profession to be science driven and evidence based in major practice areas. In the practice area of productive aging, a previous review of research published in the American Journal of Occupational Therapy (AJOT) found mostly basic research with far fewer effectiveness studies. The current ...

A company owned by 15 municipalities in central Finland operates a waste management system on behalf of its owner municipalities. The waste disposal system in the municipalities is based on the source separation of waste. The company's waste processing plant, which is the largest in Finland, has been in operation since fall 1997. The plant processes the dry waste fraction by separating out the ...

OBJECTIVES To study the role assumed by epidemiology in occupational health literature and characterise its change over the years. METHODS A bibliometric study was conducted with a MEDLINE search to evaluate 9024 articles published in eight representative occupational health journals for the period 1980-93. Articles related to epidemiology were found by descriptors indexed in the articles and...

Abstract Introduction Concepts and constructs are fundamental to the theory practice of any profession. In occupational therapy, although some concepts constructs, such as Occupational Repertoire, present and/or on rise in theoretical-methodological frameworks, they have not yet been extensively systematically investigated, defined, debated production national knowledge. Objective The objective...

INTRODUCTION Environmental factors contribute with 16% of the burden of disease in Colombia. A main obstacle in implementing national and regional environmental and occupational health policies is the limited knowledge on the local ability to study and control the impact of harmful exposures on health. OBJECTIVE To identify needs for research and training in environmental and occupational hea...

s of International Conference on Prevention of Contact Dermatitis, Zurich, p. 472. Shimojo, N., Matsuzaki, I., Homma-Takeda, S.,Tabata, K., Shinyashiki, M., Sun, G.F., Iida, A. and Kumagai, Y. (1997), “A novel hair analysis for trace elements on hair cross section bysynchrotron radiation x-ray fluorescence imaging with x-ray microprobe”, Journal of Occupational Health, Vol. 39 No. 1, pp...

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...

Markov jump processes (MJPs) are used to model a wide range of phenomena from disease progression to RNA path folding. However, maximum likelihood estimation of parametric models leads to degenerate trajectories and inferential performance is poor in nonparametric models. We take a small-variance asymptotics (SVA) approach to overcome these limitations. We derive the small-variance asymptotics ...