BACKGROUND There is a paradox in Russia and its Arctic regions which reports extremely low rates of occupational diseases (ODs), far below those of other socially and economically advanced circumpolar countries. Yet, there is widespread disregard for occupational health regulations and neglect of basic occupational health services across many industrial enterprises. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS T...

We suggest better methods for monitoring the diagnostic and treatment services of health care providers. In particular, we examine the construction and use of industrial quality control methods as applied to the health care providers in both the prevention and cure for infectious diseases and the quality performance of health care providers especially in the area of acute care. We suggest imple...

Training exercises are now frequently used in health disaster and emergency medicine to train first responders, including the use of 1 tabletops exercises. However, these kinds of drill are barely described in occupational and industrial safety and health. They represent ’ 2 –4 an interesting alternative to real life disaster plans, considering the enormous human and technical resources that ar...

Following the ban of synthetic antibiotics as antimicrobial agents and growth promoters, poultry nutritionists are now trying to find antibiotic substitutes. Agro-industrial by-products are abundant in tropical countries and have been used as the alternatives to conventional feedstuffs in poultry rations. These by-products are also known to contain several bioactive compounds such as oligosacch...

1 Human Informatics Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan 2 Faculty of Health and Sports Science, Juntendo University, Chiba, Japan 3 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan 4 The Research Organization of Science and Technology, Ritsumeikan University, Shiga, Japan 5 Faculty of Science and Industrial Technology, Kuras...