Background The National Institute for Infectious Diseases “Prof. Dr. Matei Balş” is participating during 2012-2014 in the European project “HProImmune Promotion of immunization among health care workers in Europe”, coordinated by the Institute of Preventive Medicine, Environmental and Occupational Health, Prolepsis from Greece and co-funded by DG SANCO Public Health Work Program 2008-2013. The ...

OBJECTIVES To assess the potential of a healthy worker survivor effect due to differential occupational mobility in a cohort of construction workers. METHODS A cohort of 10 809 male employees in the German construction industry aged 15-64 years was followed up for occupational mobility, early retirement due to permanent disability, and total mortality from 1986 to 1994. Using the Cox's propor...

The indicators traditionally used to determine occupational health conditions include occupational accidents and diseases. Accidents are an abrupt upset of the agent-host-environment balance, are easily identifiable inasmuch as the casual nexus can be clearly established, and can produce varying degrees of injury, including death. Occupational diseases, on the other hand, involve a slower, more...

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...

ing, or reviewing articles by ILO and WHO are already coordinated. In the future several practical problems within occupational health will be considered by WHO. These problems include the promotion of health in small industries, the arrangement of part-time work for housewives working in industry, and occupational health problems in different climates. Many practical problems also arise within...

UNLABELLED INTRODUCTION Tinnitus is considered the third worst symptom affecting humans. The aim of this article is to assess complaints by workers with tinnitus exposed to environmental and occupational noise. METHODOLOGY 495 workers went through an epidemiological survey at the Audiology Department of the Center for Studies on Workers' Health and Human Ecology, from 2003 to 2007. The wor...

There are over 3 million truck drivers employed in the commercial transportation and material moving occupations, one of the largest occupational groups in the United States. Workers in this large and growing occupational segment are at risk for a range of occupational health-induced conditions, including mental health and psychiatric disorders due to high occupational stress, low access and us...

For many doctors working within the National Health Service (NHS), occupational medicine remains a specialty on the fringe of their awareness. Undergraduate exposure to the subject is limited in most medical schools and at postgraduate level health and safety training in relation to medical work is given little emphasis. The fact that the majority of those who work in occupational medicine are ...

The objective of this randomised study was to evaluate the influence of exercise-focused group activities on female farmers' physical activity, functional capacity, and work ability over a period of 3 years. Physical activity increased more in the intervention group (n = 62) than in the control group (n = 64) during the first year. By the third year physical activity had almost returned to the ...