Many factors contribute to homelessness, including extreme poverty, extended periods of unemployment, shortages of low-income housing, deinstitutionalization, and substance abuse. As a result, the needs of people who are homeless are broad and complex. This needs assessment used literature reviews, review of local documents and reports, participant observation, locus groups, and reflective jour...

This article describes the experience of developing the Occupational Injury Surveillance System in the city of Piracicaba, in upstate São Paulo, Brazil. The system has the following characteristics: the information entered into the system is obtained directly, in real time, where the injured individuals receive medical treatment; the system has universal coverage, including all accidents occurr...

The usage and types of chemicals become developed, specialized, diversified, and newly exposed workers are concerning to occupational disease. In Korea, with the industrialization, the uses of many chemicals have increased since the 1970s. As a consequence, there have been increasing the occupational diseases caused by poisonous chemicals, such as heavy metal poisoning, solvent poisoning and oc...

O ccupational science, as decribed by Clark et al. (1991), has emerged from occupational therapy. This emergence, referred to here as partition, has involved fashioning a discipline out of a profession. It has been a lengthy process requiring considerable thought and discussion. Because the formation of a discipline out of a profession seems to be without precedent in the scientific community, ...

This article compares two differing models of intervention for persons with alcohol dependence--the Moyers Model for occupational therapy and Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Both models were found to share practice strategies but to differ in their emphasis on spirituality and self-control. Additionally, the Moyers Model was basically procedural in its description of the clinical reasoning process, ...

Shop-floor workers have occupations that require taking the same position for a long time, leading to unbalanced postures, repetitive movements, or lifting excess weight. Over these conditions can cause multiple health issues, lead serious injuries. Manufacturing and occupational safety are co-evolving. Industries recognize well-being of their employees is significant component productive succe...

In this work, we address the problem of real-time action recognition from video streams, in particular exploiting the information given by repetitive actions. Adapting the SPRING algorithm, a sequential variant of dynamic time warping (DTW), not only single frames can be classified but also repetitions of actions can be recognized. These particular benefits are demonstrated for two different pu...

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PURPOSE The outcomes of workers with upper-extremity musculoskeletal (UEMS) symptoms or disorders were evaluated over a 3-year period in a population highly exposed to repetitive work. METHODS Data were derived from a survey focused on the health effects of repetitive tasks, with a standardized physical examination by an occupational physician, in 1993 to 1994 and again in 1996 to 1997. All w...