Agricultural activities such as hoeing, cleaning grass, and fertilizing are that affect the work attitude of farmers. The intervention was in form giving Stretching Exercises with an ergonomics-based health education approach. This study aims to determine provision approach reduce musculoskeletal complaints fatigue citrus farmers Bayunggede village. research is experimental study, using same su...

" Why should Hollywood writers insist that Miss [Lena] Horne is the only good looking [black] woman in the U.S.A. who can act? " posed a wartime issue of The Call (Kansas City, Missouri). 1 Writers at The Call, the regional black newspaper, understood that this Hollywood tokenism, which framed Horne as exceptional, perpetuated white supremacy by substituting symbolic equality for tangible civil...

BACKGROUND Although back complaints are common among older people, limited information is available in the literature about the clinical course of back pain in older people and the identification of older persons at risk for the transition from acute back complaints to chronic back pain. The aim of this study is to assess the course of back complaints and identify prognostic factors for the tra...

BACKGROUND Nursing homes provide long-term housing, support and nursing care to frail elders who are no longer able to function independently. Although studies conducted in the United States have demonstrated an association between for-profit ownership and inferior quality, relatively few Canadian studies have made performance comparisons with reference to type of ownership. Complaints are one ...

AIMS To examine the association between exposure to pushing/pulling at work and low back and shoulder complaints. METHODS A cross sectional questionnaire survey was carried out among 434 workers from several companies with mainly pushing/pulling tasks. From the same companies 188 workers without physically demanding tasks served as reference. The questionnaire was used to assess the exposure ...

Purpose. To investigate whether patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) run a potentially higher risk of developing visual, musculoskeletal, and balance complaints than age-matched controls with normal vision. Methods. Visual assessments, self-rated visual function, self-rated visual, musculoskeletal, and balance complaints, and perceived general health were obtained in 37 AMD pati...

Remedial sport hunting of predators is often used to reduce predator populations and associated complaints and livestock depredations. We assessed the effects of remedial sport hunting on reducing cougar complaints and livestock depredations in Washington from 2005 to 2010 (6 years). The number of complaints, livestock depredations, cougars harvested, estimated cougar populations, human populat...

OBJECTIVE Develop and evaluate a natural language processing application for classifying chief complaints into syndromic categories for syndromic surveillance. INTRODUCTION Much of the input data for artificial intelligence applications in the medical field are free-text patient medical records, including dictated medical reports and triage chief complaints. To be useful for automated systems...