Public perceptions and behaviors in relation to COVID-19 have been at the forefront of public health policy mitigate transmission infection reduce burden on healthcare infrast...

Workers in the salt industry are exposed to direct sunlight, salt dust and contact with brine. To assess their awareness, attitude and practices related to occupational health problems, 205 salt workers were interviewed about health hazards and problems related to their working conditions, usage of protective measures and suggestions for their improvisation. The brine workers had a fair knowled...

Acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ALI/ARDS) are common in patients with critical neurological illnesses and herald a worse outcome. It has been reported in 15–40 % of patients suffering from an aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) [1, 2]. Any type of acute brain injury can trigger ALI/ARDS, but even more so, the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) seen in...

AIM This paper reports a study of the process of risk-evaluation and subsequent decision-making in the care for people with epilepsy and intellectual disability. BACKGROUND People with intellectual disability and severe epilepsy are at risk of suffering accidents during seizure, and often need protection. Whether to implement protective measures or to accept risk is a complex decision, burden...

After the manufacture of Lyme vaccine was discontinued in 2002, strategies to prevent Lyme disease (LD) have focused on personal protective measures. Effectiveness of these measures has not been conclusively demonstrated. The aim of our case-control study was to assess the effectiveness of personal preventive measures in a highly disease-endemic area. Case-patients were persons with LD reported...

We examined the role of time and affect in intentions to purchase a risk-protective measure (Studies 1 and 2) and explored participant abilities to factor time into the likelihood judgments that presumably underlie such intentions (Study 3). Participants worried more about losing their possessions and were more likely to purchase a protective measure given a longer term lease than a short-term ...