INTRODUCTION China has an estimated 5 million people with tuberculosis (TB). Official policy is that treatment of all patients is directly observed by health workers; completion rates are reported to be in excess of 90%, and drugs should be supplied for free. However, some research suggests there is a gap between the official policies and practice. METHODS Survey of TB patients in four counti...

Advances in artificial intelligence and robotics will have significant implications for evolving economic systems. This has always been the case, and the repetitive nature of most jobs has historically been a good match with the capabilities of the average worker. Technology has, of course, often disrupted and even destroyed whole industries and employment sectors. In the U.S., the mechanizatio...

BACKGROUND The quality of health information on internet is a question of concern to governments and users. Our aim was to determine the extent to which information about the influenza vaccine adheres to the gold standard set by the Spanish Health Ministry. METHODS Between June and July 2014 information on indications, adverse effects and counter-indications of the vaccine was evaluated to se...

lead taken out of the plant by the workers on their clothes. A number of recommendations are made: these include emphasizing once more that top management carry the responsibility for the protection of the health of workers; the importance of industrial hygiene and monitoring of the atmosphere, and the desirability of close co-operation of those concerned with the works medical officer; the edu...

When in 1962 I started work at Chest Clinic Kandy, I occasionally used to buy chilli powder for domestic use at a chilli grinding mill at Katukelle in Kandy. The freshly ground powder at the mill was supposed to be more potent than and preferable to the old stuff sold in retail shops. Whenever I entered the premises I was assailed with bouts of coughing and sneezing, sometimes violently when th...

In this paper, I present a positive theory of legitimation to explain why governments offer official statements after killing their own people and to ascertain whether the intuition behind Weberian legitimacy – that rule is most stable when subjects voluntarily comply – is accurate. Data for testing the theory is drawn from qualitative analysis of official responses to 156 cases of state violen...

The opinions expressed are those of the author(s). They are offered for the purpose of discussion and contribution to research. They are not statements of official Department of Labor or Bureau of International Labor Affairs policy. Abstract: Vector borne diseases, such as malaria, cause direct impacts on the health and indirect impacts on the productivity and labor supply of workers. While the...

The TEMA Symposia aim is to provide a forum to discuss recent progress on the functional roles and metabolism of trace elements among workers investigating functional aspects of the biology of trace elements and those whose tasks are to apply their findings in the fields of nutrition, human and veterinary medicine, agriculture, ecology and environmental sciences. complex will be arranged at red...