Occupational Health Program as a Local Health Officer's Opportunity

Occupational Health and Safety Risks Faced by Police Officers

ISSN 0817-8542 ISBN 0 642 24217 8 Police officers face a range of risks at work: homicide, assaults, communicable diseases, injuries during car crashes and regular abuse. The risks vary according to the task being undertaken (for example, whether performing traffic duties, attending street disturbances, arresting offenders, guarding prisoners in watchhouses or in hospital, or transporting offen...

Occupational stress, coping and mental health in Jamaican police officers

BACKGROUND Police are exposed to a wide range of stressors and this is especially true in developing countries such as Jamaica. Exposure to psychosocial stressors and use of maladaptive coping styles can result in mental ill-health. AIMS To examine the relationship between work characteristics, coping and mental health in Jamaican police officers and to test whether work characteristics are i...

Occupational stress, coping and mental health in Jamaican police officers

© The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society of Occupational Medicine. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Occupational s...

Human health as a judicious conservation opportunity.

In Southeast Asia, smoke from fires used to clear lowland forest drifts downwind to Singapore and other population centers, measurably increasing cardiopulmonary disease (Johnston et al. 2012). Around the world, dams, irrigation projects, and deforestation are associated with significant human exposures to vector-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue, filariasis, onchocerciasis, and Japanese e...

Occupational health of Iranian farmworkers: A public health priority