BACKGROUND Neck pain is a common pain syndrome in the clinical practice. It may or may not be associated with the radiculopathy or myelopathy. Load carrying on the head is believed to be associated with an increased incidence of cervical spondylosis. Radiographic spondylosis is noticeable in 25-50% of people of 50 years of age and in 75-90% by the age of 65 years. MATERIALS AND METHODS Plain ...

BACKGROUND Poultry farmers are at high-risk from avian influenza A/H7N9 infection due to sustained occupational exposures to live poultry. This study examined factors associated with poultry farmers' adoption of personal protective behaviours (PPBs) based on Protection Motivation Theory (PMT). METHODS Totally, 297 poultry farmers in three cities of Jiangsu Province, China were interviewed dur...

the purpose of this study was to survey impacts of drought on socio-economic conditions of guilan paddy farmers. besides recognizing these impacts, it ranked them according to the viewpoint of the paddy farmers. it was of the descriptive- correlation type. questionnaire was the main tool of this study. to determine the validity of questionnaire used of comments of panel experts and reliability ...

beekeeping as a technology package disseminated to target farmers in nigeria seems to suffer setbacks ranging from negative perception of farmers about the technology to technical contents of the package. this study therefore analyzes the technology attributes that influence non adoption of apiary technology packages in cross river state, nigeria. purposive and multistage random sampling techni...

To determine migration-related differences in serum lipid levels and to estimate the contribution of environmental factors to these differences, the authors conducted a cross-sectional study among 1,222 residents of southwestern China in 1988 and 1989: 521 Yi farmers living in a remote rural area, 340 Yi migrants to an urban setting, and 361 Han people living in the same urban setting. Serum to...

The objectives of this study were to explore farmers' intentions to implement foot and mouth disease (FMD) control in Ethiopia, and to identify perceptions about the disease and its control measures that influence these intentions using the Health Belief Model (HBM) framework. Data were collected using questionnaires from 293 farmers in three different production systems. The influence of perce...

farmers' behavior can be affected by different socio-economic factors. the purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of interpersonal information sources on grape farmers’ behavior in terms of optimum use of fertilizers in their vineyards. the data for this survey were collected using a questionnaire through structured interviews. a sample of 260 out of 3942 grape farmers of the khora...

This study aimed to describe the prevalence of smoking and associated factors in a cross-sectional population-based sample of 2,464 tobacco farmers in 2011. Multivariate analysis in men assessed the association between smoking and socioeconomic, behavioral, and occupational variables. Some 31.2% of men and 3.1% of women were current smokers. In men, smoking was directly associated with age, sch...