Motor-manual felling and wood processing is a high-risk work process where the chainsaw, in connection to other variables working environment, key constant source of risk danger for forest chainsaw operators. Pursuant foregoing, purpose this research investigate compare detected musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) symptoms among workers Croatia according their employer (state company – Hrvatske šume...

OBJECTIVE The use of standardized patients in Objective Structured Clinical Examinations in the assessment of psychiatric residents has increased in recent years. The aim of this study is to investigate the experience of psychiatry residents and examiners with standardized patients in Iran. METHOD Final-year residents in psychiatry participated in this study. Experienced examiners were asked ...

This paper and our presentation at the ISI meeting in Helsinki have three major themes: Presentation of the Nordic model for organising and monitoring social welfare and health care services and the Nordic co-operation (Chapters 1-3), Demonstration of the Nordic model of information steering and easy availability of high quality data (Chapter 4), and Discussion about the future trends in dissem...

This survey aimed to evaluate the applicability of the Nordic Occupational Skin Questionnaire (NOSQ) as a preliminary screening tool to investigate the presence of contact dermatological disorders in sea fishermen. The Italian version of the NOSQ was administered to 143 male fishermen working at an Apulia (Southern Italy) Fisheries, and 136 male workers who had never worked as sea fishers (cont...

BACKGROUND This study analysed the influence of parents' labour market participation on their children's well-being in the five Nordic countries, and the changes from 1984 to 1996, during which unemployment rates generally rose in the Nordic countries. METHODS Parent-reported questionnaire data from two cross-sectional studies, 12 years apart, with 15,354 (in 1984) and 15,255 (in 1996) random...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have reported a positive association between scoring on healthy Nordic diet scales and the intake of healthy foods and nutrients, and also with higher intake of meat, sweets, cakes, and energy in general. These studies have used the same food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) responses for constructing the diet score as for calculating intakes of foods and nutrients. Thu...

The five Nordic countries are characterized by stable political systems based on consensus and interactive contracts between the populations and their governments. There has been a prosperous development through more than half a century, which also has resulted in a model of ’good health care for all’. However from late part of 1980s and during the 1990s it was realised that the cost of health ...

BACKGROUND Research comparing mortality by socioeconomic status has found that inequalities are not the smallest in the Nordic countries. This is in contrast to expectations given these countries' policy focus on equity. An alternative way of studying inequality has been little used to compare inequalities across welfare states and may yield a different conclusion. METHODS We used average lif...