background: there are inconsistencies about the effects of farmworker housing and workplace conditions and use of self-protective behavior practices and personal protective equipment (ppe). objective: to investigate the association between workplace and housing conditions and farmworker use of pesticide safety practices and ppe. methods: this study was conducted in 4 counties in north carolina,...

ISSUE ADDRESSED Most academic journals that publish studies involving human participants require evidence that the research has been approved by a human research ethics committee (HREC). Yet journals continue to receive submissions from authors who have failed to obtain such approval. In this paper, we provide an ethical justification of why journals should not, in general, publish articles des...

BACKGROUND Community mental health care has shifted focus from resettlement to empowerment, reflecting a wider agenda for social inclusion. PURPOSE This study evaluated mental health day services from the perspectives of thirty-nine clients. METHOD Data analysis of the four focus groups explored the implications for occupational therapy. The data collected were subjected to constant compara...

INTRODUCTION The main purpose of the study was to verify knowledge about eye health care attention of the pediatricians and nurses at public health centers in the city of Campinas, state of São Paulo, Brazil. METHODS Knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding eye health on behalf of pediatricians and nurses who worked at health centers in Campinas were studied through questionnaires and for...

The Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs in collaboration with the Ministry of Health Care carries out the activities aimed at solving occupational health and safety problems in Lithuania. Occupational health care system in Lithuania consists of three levels: 1) primary occupational health centers in the industry; 2) general practitioners taking care of employees' health; and 3) the State Labor...

OBJECTIVES The objective of the study was to examine whether the association of physical workload with musculoskeletal disorders might explain occupational social class inequalities in self-rated health. METHODS Participants of the study were 40-60 years old employees of the City of Helsinki. The data (n = 3740) were derived from several sources, including mail survey designed by the research...

A substantial amount of occupational medicine is practised by primary care physicians and this applies throughout the world. In the UK, if we assume that 1 in 10 primary care physicians may have some attachment or interest then there may be as many as 3200 general practitioners (GPs) practising occupational medicine, even if this is simply an arrangement to see employees from a local company if...

This book is such a manual for grassroots health practitioners and workers who either lack the training or knowledge and need information for providing primary health care to the community. This book, with the detailed information on medical approaches to identification, diagnoses, treatment, and rehabilitative care, suffices and supplements the need for dearth of basic information in the field...

BACKGROUND (UK) National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence tuberculosis (TB) guidance (2006) recommends that occupational health services send annual TB symptom reminders to staff at increased risk of occupational TB exposure. AIMS To evaluate the effectiveness of annual TB symptom reminders. METHODS Retrospective analysis of returns from 4 years' annual TB symptom reminders comp...

It is the aim of the Cochrane Collaboration to gather, summarise and disseminate evidence of health care interventions. Recently, the Occupational Health Field has started to do so for occupational health interventions. In this article we would like to describe the organisation and the methods used by the Field. First, the use of research information to improve the quality of occupational healt...