background :fieldwork education is a core part of all occupational therapy curriculums around the world to enable the students meet minimum competencies required for their professional life. student experience is a valuable source to explore the nature of fieldwork training and plan more efficient curriculums in the future. this study aimed to explore the students' experiences in the first fiel...

BACKGROUND Socio-economic position measures, such as education, occupational class and income, are well-known determinants of health. However, previous studies have not paid attention to mutual interrelationships between these socio-economic position measures and medically confirmed sickness absence. METHODS The study is a register-based study. The participants were municipal employees of the...

STUDY OBJECTIVE Many previous studies on socioeconomic inequalities in health have neglected the causal interdependencies between different socioeconomic indicators. This study examines the pathways between three socioeconomic determinants of ill health. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Cross sectional survey data from the Helsinki health study in 2000 and 2001 were used. Each year employees...

OBJECTIVES Education on occupational health and safety (OHS) is not a compulsory part of the curriculum of general secondary schools (GSSs) in many countries. Adolescence is a formative period. Mainstreaming education in OHS into GSSs is necessary in order to initiate in students a risk prevention culture. We explored the feasibility of using a photo competition (PC) concerning health protectio...

Education, childhood IQ, and occupational social class are associated with mortality and morbidity. One possible cause of these associations is via their impact on health behaviours such as smoking. Less educated people are more likely to continue smoking, but smoking is more strongly related to occupational social class than to education. Childhood IQ is related to education and occupational s...

OBJECTIVE Peer-assisted learning is widely used in medical education. However, little is known about an appropriate didactic preparation for peer tutors. We herein describe the development of a focused didactic training for skills lab tutors in Internal Medicine and report on a retrospective survey about the student tutors' acceptance and the perceived transferability of attended didactic train...

The article reflects on the changing world of work, and the challenges presented to both occupational health and occupational health education. We draw on the 63 preparatory workshops and the international conference in the "Work Life 2000: Quality in Work" program, an initiative of the Swedish Presidency of the European Union. The International Commission on Occupational Health is introduced, ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess whether balanced educational supervision was being provided for occupational medicine (OM) specialist registrars (SpRs) in the Armed Forces and to consider the effectiveness of current supervision. METHODS Anonymized postal questionnaires, using Likert five-point response scales, were sent to Service OM SpRs and their educational supervisors (Ed S...

Results: Nurses reported high stress levels in workload and time pressure subscale, followed by professional and career issues, patient care and interaction, interpersonal relationships and management issues, resource and environmental problems. Fifty subjects (76.9%) suffered from one or more sub-health symptoms. Fatigue was the most common symptom. Occupational stress was positively correlate...

ï¿1⁄2 Although in the 1920s the Nationalist government of the newly founded Republic of China almost abolished Chinese medicine, it nevertheless allowed it coexist with Western medicine after its withdrawal to Taiwan.ï¿1⁄2 The number of physicians practicing Chinese mddicine is only one tent` of the number practicing Western medicine. In today's practice, acupuncture plays a much smaller role t...