OBJECTIVES To determine the effects of sporting activity on absenteeism in a working population. METHODS Data were used from a prospective cohort study in a working population with a follow up period of 3 years and were collected with yearly questionnaires or collected from company records. Complete data on absenteeism, sporting activity, and potential confounders were collected for 1228 work...

OBJECTIVES Burden of diseases attributable to low physical activity is increasing worldwide mainly among working age populations. The aim of the study was to evaluate the association between selected (including demographic and socioeconomic) factors and leisure-time physical activity. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study was performed in the randomly selected group of 450 men and 502 women in the ...

OBJECTIVE The relationship between workplace absenteeism and adverse lifestyle factors (smoking, physical inactivity and poor dietary patterns) remains ambiguous. Reliance on self-reported absenteeism and obesity measures may contribute to this uncertainty. Using objective absenteeism and health status measures, the present study aimed to investigate what health status outcomes and lifestyle fa...

OBJECTIVES This article compares the socioeconomic and health characteristics of the household population aged 35 to 64 with and without self-reported heart disease. DATA SOURCES Information on the prevalence of heart disease is from the household component of Statistics Canada's 1996/97 National Population Health Survey. ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES Weighted estimates of the health, health care u...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES To report the prevalence of obesity in a Spanish working population and its changes in recent years. MATERIAL AND METHODS Data were collected from routine medical examinations performed on workers by a national mutual insurance society for occupational accidents and diseases (Ibermutuamur). A structured questionnaire was completed and physical examinations were perfo...

BACKGROUND The incidence of type 1 diabetes is increasing worldwide. Since so little is known about work life of individuals with type 1 diabetes, we examined incidence and prevalence trends of type 1 diabetes among working-aged Finns. We also investigated the employment rate and how workers with type 1 diabetes perceive their health and work ability, and their intended retirement age. METHOD...

objectives: this study investigated the efficacy of working memory training for improving working memory capacity and related auditory stream segregation in auditory processing disorders children. methods: fifteen subjects (9-11 years), clinically diagnosed with auditory processing disorder participated in this non-randomized case-controlled trial. working memory abilities and auditory stream s...

According to recent surveys in European countries, coverage rates ranged from 9 to 28% for the global population, 14 to 70% among elderly people and 4 to 19% among children [6]. Adverse events observed, following an immunization against flu, were mild. Rare side effects were anaphylactic shock, stroke and death [1]. There is a high-risk occupational subpopulation including healthcare workers, p...

The use of population-based techniques to solve optimization problems is continuously increasing, as these kind of problems appears in a number of situations in real life. Many of these problems are of a combinatorial nature, this means that we have to find the ideal permutation of the parameters involved to reach the optimal solution. As the number of parameters increases, the difficulty to fi...

Problem drinking is a serious public health problem in the workplace. However, few Japanese epidemiological studies have investigated the occupational characteristics of problem drinking. The purpose of this study is to clarify the occupational risk factors for problem drinking among a Japanese working population. We used data from a random-sampling survey about mental health and suicide, condu...