Given the burden of occupational illnesses and injuries in the United States, family physicians should understand the role workplace exposures may play in patients' chief concerns. Incorporating employment screening questions into patients' intake questionnaires is an efficient means of identifying potential occupational causes of symptoms. Recommended questions include what kind of job patient...

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a considerable health problem worldwide. It is known to be associated with certain occupational risk factors. We examined the prevalence rate of OA by occupational cluster. Data were collected from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (2010-2013). The total number of unweighted sample size was 9,905 participants: 4,460 men and 5,445 women, and OA pr...

OBJECTIVES Prolonged occupational work such as farm work has been reported to adversely affect mobility in elderly women. The purpose of this study was to investigate possible relationships between prolonged occupational work and 6-year changes in postural sway in elderly women. METHODS Subjects were 392 women aged ≥ 69 years who participated in a 6-year follow-up examination of the Muramatsu...

BACKGROUND Occupational health professionals may play an important role in preventive health promotion activities for employees. However, due to a lack of knowledge and evidence- and practice based methods and strategies, interventions are hardly being implemented by occupational physicians to date. The aim of the Balance@Work project is to develop, evaluate, and implement an occupational healt...

A number of themes weave through any consideration of the American workforce. Demographic imperatives and our own experience underscore the aging of workers and the heterogeneity of that segment of the working population . As occupational therapists, we treat those older adults whose working roles have been adversely impacted by physical, emotional and/ or social losses, or who have retired. We...

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...

OBJECTIVES Although the United States has generally enjoyed declining rates of fatal occupational injury, the rate of decline has not been uniform. To examine the heterogeneity of trends, changes in fatal occupational injury rates from 1980 to 1996 were estimated by occupation, industry, geographic region, and demographic group. METHODS Deaths due to injury at work during 1980-96 were identif...

The occupational contribution to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has yet to be put in a global perspective. In the present study, an ecological approach to this question was used, analysing group-level data from 90 sex-specific strata from 45 sites of the Burden of Obstructive Lung Disease study, the Latin American Project for the Investigation of Obstructive Lung Disease and the E...