background prevalence of low back pain (lbp) and neck pain (np) in workers, especially in nurses is high, but their knowledge of ergonomics is not enough. objectives the aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of ergonomic training on low back pain and neck pain, posture, and function in female hospital personnel of najaf-abad, iran. patients and methods in this queasy experimental study, ...

von Celsing, A.-S. 2016. Early risk assessment of long-term sick leave among patients in primary health care. risk factors, assessment tools, multidisciplinary intervention, and patients’ views on sick leave conclusion. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1194. 85 pp. Uppsala: Avhandlingsproduktion. ISBN 978-91-554-9508-4. Background. Long-term ...

Lance Rodan, MD Ingrid Tein, MD, FRCPC SECTION 1 A 10-year-old, right-handed boy with a several-day history of fever and upper respiratory symptoms presented with acute onset headache, emesis, progressive mental status change, and right-sided focal seizures. Symptoms developed over approximately 3 hours. There was no history of recent toxic or medication exposures, travel, immunizations, sick c...

BACKGROUND Compared to expert malaria microscopy, malaria biomarkers such as Plasmodium falciparum histidine rich protein-2 (PfHRP-2), and PCR provide superior analytical sensitivity and specificity for quantifying malaria parasites infections. This study reports on parasite prevalence, sick visits parasite density and species composition by different diagnostic methods during a phase-I malaria...

OBJECTIVE Our study describes sick leave during 3 years before and 3 years after diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in relation to referents and identifies predictors for sick leave during the third year after diagnosis of RA. METHODS One hundred twenty patients (76% women) from the Swedish early RA study TIRA were included. Disease activity and disability were registered regularly during...

BACKGROUND Mental disorders strongly influence work capability in young adults, but it is not clear which disorders that are most strongly associated with sick leave, and which diagnoses that are stated on the sick leave certificates. Better knowledge of the impairments associated with different mental disorders is needed for optimal planning of interventions and prioritization of health servic...

based on previous researches and current research indoor contaminations in most of the time were more than outdoor contaminations. in according to, most of our times have been spent in indoor environments (85-90%), therefore, it is necessary to investigate indoor environments. symptoms of sick building syndrome are headache, dizziness, drowsiness. unknown reasons of disease above mentioned and ...