1 Department of Community, Occupational and Family Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore Address for Reprints: Prof Lee Hin Peng, Department of Community, Occupational and Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine MD3, National University of Singapore, 16 Medical Drive, Singapore 117597. † Lecture delivered at the 9th Annual Scientific Meeting, Chapter of Public Health and Occupation...

ISSUE ADDRESSED Most academic journals that publish studies involving human participants require evidence that the research has been approved by a human research ethics committee (HREC). Yet journals continue to receive submissions from authors who have failed to obtain such approval. In this paper, we provide an ethical justification of why journals should not, in general, publish articles des...

BACKGROUND For over two decades occupational therapists have been encouraged to enhance their roles within primary care and focus on health promotion and prevention activities. While there is a clear fit between occupational therapy and primary care, there have been few practice examples, despite a growing body of evidence to support the role. In 2010, the province of Ontario, Canada provided f...

INTRODUCTION Office employees are exposed to hazardous levels of sedentary work. Interventions that integrate health promotion and health protection elements are needed to advance the health of sedentary workers. This study tested an integrated intervention on occupational sedentary/physical activity behaviors, cardiometabolic disease biomarkers, musculoskeletal discomfort, and work productivit...

Walking is an easy everyday activity that most of us do automatically. However, recently, walking has been employed by health promotion strategists to improve the health of the general public, and used therapeutically in settings such as psychiatric services (McDevitt et al 2005, Richardson et al 2005). Studies have demonstrated its physiological and psychological benefits in alleviating depres...

Benchmarking is a term heard frequently in occupational health nursing, especially from management, but it is not a skill frequently taught in nursing education. According to the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (AAOHN), the focus of occupational health nursing is the promotion and restoration of health, prevention of illness and injury, and protection from workrelated and env...

BACKGROUND Welding is a manufacturing industry where workers could be exposed to several hazards. However, there is a dearth of studies clarifying the situation in Ethiopia. The present study determined the level of awareness of occupational hazards and associated factors among welding employees at Lideta Sub-City, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. METHODS A work site-based cross-sectional study was con...

The aim of this cross-sectional study was to examine whether occupational class inequalities existed in the behavioral and biological risk factors for cardiovascular disease among workers in medium- and small-scale enterprises. We asked 1,900 enterprises in the Ishikawa prefecture who were users of an external heath check-up facility to supply anonymous individual data in 2009. The 446 enterpri...