BACKGROUND During the past decades, the prevalence of caries disease in the population of Western industrialized countries has decreased markedly. In children also, a reduction of dental caries experience has been reported by many authors. The aim of this paper was to evaluate the trend of dental caries prevalence in 12-year-old children living in the city of Sassari, (Italy), by five cross-sec...

Occupational health-or "industrial hygiene", as it was known in the early. twentieth century-has hardly figured in most accounts of the workplace. Business historians are mostly management oriented; medical and social historians have yet to give the subject the attention it deserves. Christopher Sellers' book is therefore particularly welcome. It traces the history of industrial hygiene in Amer...

Center for Management of Occupational Injury and Disease, National Taiwan University Hospital, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, National Taiwan University Hospital, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, ChaoYang University of Technology, Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Council of Labor Affairs and Institute of Occupational Medicine and Industrial H...

The history of the Center for Occupational Health (COH) at the National Institute of Public Health in Prague dates back to the early 1950s. The Center was established on January 1, 1952. The first director of the Institute was Prof. Jaroslav Teisinger, M.D., D.Sc. (1902–1985), the founding father of occupational medicine in former Czechoslovakia, and the head of the first Czech Department of Oc...

background: with the rising of baking industries in bangladesh, more female workers are surprisingly engaged compared to male workers. the major aim of this study was to observe the working conditions, available safety facilities and hygiene maintained by the female workers. methods: a cross sectional survey was carried out among the randomly selected 384 female workers from different baking in...