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The Prevalence of Occupational Risk Factors and Occupational Diseases in Kerman, Iran
... by occupational hygienists based on a standard checklist provided by the Ministry of Health and Medical Education Center for Environmental Health and ...through occupational screening, occupational ...
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Occupational risk factors for Parkinson's disease: a case-control study in Japan
... Previous occupational stu- dies on PD have provided data on specific environmen- tal risk factors, although consistency in the definition of risk factors is ...the risk of PD ...
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Risk of dust bronchopulmonary pathology development in workers employed in various economic brunches under impacts exerted by occupational risk factors: clinical and hygienic aspects
... When patients had their first examina- tion in a medical-social examination office we detected significant specific weight of disability (61.5% patients with toxic-dust bronchitis and 40% with dust bronchitis), 19.2% ...
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Low Back Pain among Nurses: Prevalence, and Occupational Risk Factors
... major occupational problem especially among nursing ...The factors that are significantly associated to low back pain were: high BMI, number of pregnancies, arthritis, poor physical condition, daily fre- ...
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The Occupational Risk Factors of Prostate Cancer: A narrative Review
... 20. Sass‐Kortsak AM, Purdhum JM, Kreiger N, Darlington G, Lightfoot NE. Occupational risk factors for prostate cancer. American journal of industrial medicine. 2007;50(8):568-76. 21. Pearce NE, ...
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A Study on Musculoskeletal Disorders and Personal and Occupational Risk Factors among Surgeons
... pain intensity compared to other body parts (2.1±1 on a scale of 1-5). Auerbach JD et al. (18) , Adam C Esser et al. (19) and Grace PY Szeto et al. (9) reported similar results in surgeons, finding neck pain to be the ...
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Study and analysis of occupational risk factors for ergonomic design of construction work systems
... Occupational risk has been defined as any condition of a job that can result in illness, injury, disability and ...introduced, occupational risk factors are prevalent in every work ...
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Working conditions as occupational risk factors for functional disorders in agriculture machine operators
... harmful factors of environment and labor process, the levels of which correspond by the degree of deviation from the hygienic standards to harmful labor conditions of 1–4 degrees (classes ...
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Development and feasibility of a personalized, interactive risk calculator for knee osteoarthritis
... OA. Occupational risk is de- termined using the question: “Have you been exposed to occupational risk factors associated with knee OA such as kneeling, squatting, or lifting?” History ...
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Low back pain risk factors in a large rural Australian Aboriginal community. An opportunity for managing co-morbidities?
... modifiable risk factors in a large rural Indigenous community as a basis for informing a musculo-skeletal and related health promotion ...were occupational risk ...
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The Relationship Between Knowledge About Coronary Heart Diseases Risk Factors and Health-promoting Lifestyle
... associated risk factors were coronary heart dis- ease patients; not the general public or healthy people (Anderson et ...disease risk factors and a health- promoting lifestyle in adults of ...
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Prevalence of and risk factors for tuberculosis among healthcare workers in Chinese tuberculosis facilities
... Despite the World Health Organization establishing an international policy that aims to protect HCWs from acquiring TB [8], infection control practices have been insufficiently implemented in China, where LTBI screen- ...
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Prevalence of Musculoskeletal Risk Factors among Truck Drivers at the Jordan Petroleum Refinery Company
... Truck drivers represent a highly underserved large and diverse population; long working hours, excessive noise and vibration, prolonged sitting and unhealthy lifestyles, thus truck transportation is one of the highest ...
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The effect of physical and psychosocial occupational factors on the chronicity of low back pain in the workers of Iranian metal industry: a cohort study
... Few prospective studies have been done on the impact of occupational risk factors in the development of acute LBP to chronic LBP. In this study, we observed a signifi- cant relationship between ...
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Original Article Occupational exposure among Chinese nursing students: current status, risking factors and preventive interventions
... and risk factors of occupational hazards in nursing stu- dent attending clinical practicum, and to evaluate the effects of occupational preventive ...about occupational safety and ...
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Workplace violence towards workers in the emergency departments of Palestinian hospitals: a cross-sectional study
... Violence against workers in Palestinian EDs is highly common. Health workers with direct contact, especially the young and least experienced, are the most exposed. Multiple factors cause violence; however, ED ...
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Lifetime environmental tobacco smoke exposure and the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
... COPD is a common disease, affecting 5–10% of the pop- ulation of North America and Europe [1-3]. During the past two decades, death and disability from COPD have continued to increase worldwide [1,4]. Although direct ...
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2nd European Headache and Migraine Trust International Congress-EHMTIC
... Laughing is an uncommon provoking factor for headache and only few cases have been reported to date. Simonds in his 1956’s study points out laughing as a trigger of sudden and transient headache as well as coughing, ...
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Measuring psychosocial exposures: validation of the Persian of the copenhagen psychosocial questionnaire (COPSOQ)
... important (2). These changes have some- times resulted in increased psychological stress. Furthermore, as a main consequence, sick-leave days and health care costs due to psychosocial factors have increased over ...
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... the risk of hearing loss and it was a con- tributory factor in age related hearing loss, which was also shown by other studies ...a risk factor for age related hearing loss ...
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