I n this issue of World Journal of Pediatrics, Lin and co-workers report an interesting study on the effect of rotating shift work for female employees on childbearing and infant birth weight (page 129). [1] In their study of female workers in a semiconductor factory, they found a significant lower birth rate among women working shifts compared to women on consisting daytime work. Furthermore, ...

conclusions based on the path analysis model, working condition and socioeconomic status directly and indirectly influence birth weight. thus, as well as attention to treatment and health care (biological aspect), special attention must also be paid to mothers’ socioeconomic factors. results the final path model fitted well (cfi =1, rmsea=0.00) and showed that among direct paths, working condit...

BACKGROUND System approaches, such as improving working conditions, have been advocated to improve patient safety. However, the independent effect of many working condition variables on patient outcomes is unknown. OBJECTIVE To examine effects of a comprehensive set of working conditions on elderly patient safety outcomes in intensive care units. DESIGN Observational study, with patient out...

Staffing patterns and nurses' working conditions are risk factors for healthcare-associated infections as well as occupational injuries and infections. Staffing shortages, especially of nurses, have been identified as one of the major factors expected to constrain hospitals' ability to deal with future outbreaks of emerging infections. These problems are compounded by a global nursing shortage....

An ergonomics and safety model to assess and evaluate the most critical industrial improvement areas in a developing nation. This study was initiated and supported by a Fortune 500 Corporation interested in improving its global operations in developing nations. This initiative was also fully supported by an emerging nation that was concerned with its ergonomics and safety problems. The model wa...

Hearing is one of the most important human senses. The fact that we can perceive sound helps us to locate and classify sound sources and forms the basis of our speech communication. The healthy hearing system is astonishingly robust towards adverse acoustic conditions such as background noise, competing speech or reverberation. In modern societies, however, hearing deficiencies are widely sprea...

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BACKGROUND The type of payment is one of the important factors that has an effect on the health of employees, as a basic working condition. In the conventional research field of occupational safety and health, only the physical, chemical, biological, and ergonomic factors are treated as the main hazardous factors. Managerial factors and basic working conditions such as working hours and the typ...

The scope of this paper is to discuss the implications of treating concerns for working environment as quality aspects in design processes. The study has been conducted as a research project into concepts as Integrated Product Development (IPD) and Design for Quality (DfQ) combined with a case-study of a Danish electronics manufacturer. The study shows that adopting an extended view of quality ...

OBJECTIVE This article presents a training course in work analysis via an understanding of real work. The course was aimed at trade unionists and was produced by researchers in ergonomics and occupational medicine. Designing this type of training is closely associated with the history of ergonomics in France and goes back to the basic principles: training by and for action, focusing on the conc...