Health of every living being is dependent on level pollutant in the environment, weather condition, etc, which are interrelated and influencing each other. Presence pollution particles high percentage such as particulate matter size 10 2.5 (PM10, PM25) microns creates higher risk lung functionality, respiratory disease reduces cardio functionality; also affects quality water sources. Rainfall, ...

The sixth edition of Hazard from the Victorian Injury Surveillance System departs a little from the usual Hazard format. The first section is devoted to a preliminary evaluation of the effects of the Victorian bicycle helmet legislation. This edition also undertakes an examination of all bicycle related injuries in the usual format. Bicycle related injuries occur in residential and recreational...

Twelve percent of ED fall presentations were from a height of 1m or above, one quarter of which required hospitalisation, compared to low falls (ie. less than one metre) of which 14% required hospitalisation. The most common location for all child fall injuries was the home with reduced frequency as the age of the child increased. Conversely, the frequency of falls at areas for sporting activit...

This edition of Hazard examines horse related injury in the VISS database, the Victorian Coroner’s Facilitation System and the Victorian Inpatient Minimum Dataset. The analysis is undertaken in two sections, with the first assessing injuries occurring during horse riding, the second, injuries sustained during other horse related activities. Prevention strategies are a major focus. The article u...

The purpose of this issue of Hazard is to provide an overview of injury deaths in Victoria based on the Victorian Coroner’s Facilitation System. Although these data are not timely, they highlight outstanding causes and identify trends and changes over time to an extent unavailable from other current sources. It updates Hazard 11, June 1992 and provides an insight into the depth of timely data s...

We interpret workers’ confidence in their own skills as their morale, and investigate the implication of worker overconfidence on the firm’s optimal wage-setting policies. In our model, wage contracts both provide incentives and affect worker morale, by revealing private information of the firm about worker skills. We provide conditions for the non-differentiation wage policy to be profit-maxim...

background: natural radioactivity in materials under certain conditions can reach the hazardous radiological levels. so, it becomes necessary to study the natural radioactivity in different materials to assess the dose for the population in order to know the health risks and to have a baseline for future changes in the environmental radioactivity due to human activities. materials and methods: ...