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Mortality follow-up of Fernald Feed Materials Production Center workers exposed to uranium from 1951 to 1985 (15 August, 2024)
CAUSES AND MANAGEMENT OF STRESS AT WORK
Jan 1, 2002 · Stress has been defined in different ways over the years. Originally, it was conceived of as pressure from the environment, then as strain within the person. The generally accepted definition today is one of interaction between the situation and the individual. It is the psychological and physical state that results when the resources of the individual are not sufficient to cope with the ...
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Effectiveness of psychological skills training for police personnel: a ...
There has been an increasing interest in primary prevention programmes developed to improve police officers’ mental health. This meta-analysis synthesised the existing findings on psychological skills training for police personnel including resilience training and mindfulness-based training. Particularly, this study systematically assessed the effectiveness of training programmes on mental ...
Effectiveness of interventions on the stress management of ...
Background This systematic review aimed to analyse the effectiveness of interventions on the stress management of schoolteachers. Methods We searched the Medline, PsycINFO, CINAHL and Education Research Complete until 30 November 2021, to identify relevant studies using relevant key words. Job or occupational stress was used as the outcome measure. Stress was defined as Perceived Stress Scale ...
Thoughts on adding diffusing capacity to medical surveillance of …
Coal miners are occupationally exposed to coal mine dust, which can cause a spectrum of diseases called coal mine dust lung disease; these include coal workers pneumoconiosis (CWP, also known as ‘black lung’), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), silicosis and dust-related diffuse fibrosis.1 The incidence of these diseases, especially CWP, has been on the rise in the USA in the ...
Baker's asthma - Occupational & Environmental Medicine
Jul 1, 2002 · Baker's asthma is one of the most common forms of occupational asthma. The increasing knowledge in exposure–response relations accumulated in recent years is important in the understanding of baker's asthma. This development has made scientifically based prevention feasible today and baker's asthma should not be regarded as an inevitable occurrence any more. In 1700 Bernardo Ramazzini ...
HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT - Occupational & Environmental …
A person’s health status is largely determined by factors outside the control of the healthcare sector. While some of these are fixed, such as inheritance, many are environmental in the broadest sense of the term. These operate through such socioeconomic sectors as employment, education, housing and transport, which structure the health risks and opportunities of …
COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE: WHAT IS IT ALL …
Feb 1, 2002 · DEFINITION. Complementary therapies seem to have little in common other than their exclusion from the mainstream. Many supporters are convinced of the superiority and universal applicability of their treatment.
Identifying occupational carcinogens: an update from the IARC ...
The recognition of occupational carcinogens is important for primary prevention, compensation and surveillance of exposed workers, as well as identifying causes of cancer in the general population. This study updates previously published lists of known occupational carcinogens while providing additional information on cancer type, exposure …