Effective interventions to reduce work-related exposures are available for many types of work-related diseases or injuries. However, knowledge of the impact of these interventions on injury or disease outcomes is scarce due to practical and methodological reasons. Study designs are considered for the evaluation of occupational health interventions on occupational disease or injury. Latency and ...

This article argues for consideration of occupational socialization as a research focus in industrial psychology: the changes that come about in a person through his or her participation in work. Research on occupational socialization takes a developmental perspective, and is a part of life-span developmental psychology. Specifically, the framework of occupational socialization calls attention ...

This paper emphasize the role of ontologies in the e-Health domain, namely in Occupational Health. It describes (by means of a case study) the representation and integration of the semantic and modelling layers of a system based on ontologies for the prevention of occupational risks, as an application of ontologies in the occupational health domain. The case study enumerates basic concepts and ...

OBJECTIVE to verify whether there are associations among occupational roles, independence to perform Activities of Daily Living, purchasing power, and assistive technology for individuals with physical disabilities. METHOD 91 individuals with physical disabilities participated in the study. The instruments used were: Role Checklist, Brazilian Economic Classification Criterion, Barthel Index, ...

The study is aimed at investigating the peculiarities of mobbing, as compared with other stress-related occupational issues, considering personal, occupational and health variables. A sample of 100 subjects examined in our Service was considered: 52 presented a situation ascribable to workplace bullying, 44 diseases associated with other occupational malfunctions, 4 were judged affected by psyc...

Diagnostic Criteria and Guidelines for Documenting Them Asbestos as a Hazard Asbestos in Lung Tissue Clinical Evaluation and Indicators Symptoms Occupational and Environmental History Physical Examination Conventional Imaging Computed Tomography Bronchoalveolar Lavage Pulmonary Function Tests Nonmalignant Disease Outcomes Asbestosis Nonmalignant Pleural Abnormalities Associated with Asbestos Ch...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the individual and combined associations of physical and psychosocial working environment with disabling shoulder pain and to identify groups at "high risk" for shoulder pain. METHODS A cross sectional survey was conducted at five manual occupational settings in south Manchester, United Kingdom (n=775, 83%). RESULTS Both the duration of occupational physical demands (w...

In this study the complex interrelationship between physical factors, job stress, lifestyle and genetic factors on symptoms of work-related musculoskeletal disorders of the upper limbs is demonstrated by a case report and discussion of the literature. A 58 year old woman with long lasting complaints of the upper limbs with increasing intensity and duration, generalisation, combined with skin th...