It’s possible that you are reading this shortly after returning from the AOTA Annual Conference and Expo in Minneapolis. For those who were not able to attend, let me tell you a little about what the experience of “conferencing” is like—at least for me, a veteran of at least 20 conferences. In my early days as an occupational therapist, I attended Conference to hear about the newest assessments...

The opportunity to participate in wellness programming can be particularly valuable to persons who must be prepared to deal with continuing gradual physical deterioration for the rest of their lives. During time periods when his health was stable, without evidence of a rapid progression of the illness, Charlie was able to devote some energy to the pursuit of swimming, an activity he had enjoyed...

Work is a principal driver of current international migration, a primary social determinant of health, and a fundamental point of articulation between migrants and their host society. Efforts by international organizations to promote migrant health have traditionally focused on infectious diseases and access to healthcare, while international labor organizations have largely focused on issues o...

background accident is an event that occurs suddenly, unexpectedly and inadvertently under unforeseen circumstances. accidents can have individual, social and economical effects 2080 injury cases including labor-law workers were studied in mashhad city, islamic republic of iran. their data were collected from the labor office archive. objectives this study was conducted to determine the effecti...

This paper presents a model where intergenerational occupational mobility is the joint outcome of three main determinants: income incentives, equality opportunity and changes in composition occupations. The rationalizes use transition matrices to measure mobility, which allows for identification asymmetric patterns formulation specific index each determinant. Italian children born 1940-1951 had...

Objective: To explore the cultural meanings of concept labor inclusion in postgraduate professionals safety and health at work who attended a refresher course university Cali Colombia. Material Method: It was qualitative, descriptive, cross-sectional study. The information obtained using free word listing technique analyzed domain model. group participants made up 37 administration occupational...

Despite recent stability and socioeconomic development, Brazil's history is marked by social inequality, informality, precarious work, and psychosocial vulnerability, with little opportunity for decent and meaningful work, as recommended by the International Labour Office (ILO), for people in the country. Nevertheless, based on a social constructionist view, the hypothesis can be raised that th...

Dorothy Euwards, PhD, is Coordinator of Research, De· partment of Occupational Therapy, and Carolyn Manville Baum, MA, OTR, FAOTA, is Director of Occupational Therapy Clinical Services, both at the Irene Walter John· son Institute of Rehabilitation, Washington University Medical School, SI Louis, Missouri. Dorothy Edwards and Carolyn Manville Baum also are members of the OASIS AdVisory Committe...

and its placement in the section on occupational and environmental lung disease is misleading. Moreover, nowhere in the article is there specific reference to the fact that it deals only with acute exposures. By conservative estimates, there are at least 8,000 deaths annually in the United States caused by occupational asbestos exposure, almost all of which qualify as being caused by " fatal, w...

The 1984 Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lecture was presented by Elnora Gilfoyle at the Annual Conference of the Amencan Occupational Therapy Association on iVlay 10, 1984, Kansas City) Jl1lSS oun . During the past few decades occupational therapy has been in a state of identity cnsis where the reality of occupational therapy and its proper place within health care systems is being questioned. Our profe...