Several articles on the developing specialty of hand therapy within occupational therapy were featured in the September 27, 1990, issue of OT Week. It was disturbing to read, however, that the American Society of Hand Therapists was founded in 1977 not to augment or promote occupational therapy's knowledge base or practice, but rather, to "foster the advancement of the profession of hand therap...

The Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process (also known as the Framework), an official document of the American Occupational Therapy Association, advocates terminology and a classification system for concepts that are central to the profession of occupational therapy. Its use has been advocated in practice, research, education, and communications with those who wish to know ...

[as found here: http://www.medicalgeo.com/Med-Diseases-L/Lymphoma.html] Lymphoma A general term for malignancies of lymphocytes or, more rarely, of histiocytes. Collectively, these cell types non hodgkins lymphoma symptoms of form the reticuloendothelial system and circulate in the vessels of the lymphatic system. Traditionally, Lymphoma is classified lymphoma cancer as Hodgkin's lymphoma, disc...

The evaluation of occupational exposures in epidemiological studies is complex because of the multiple potential exposures in the workplace, the varying determinants of exposure between people, the many jobs people hold in a lifetime, and the different reasons for taking or leaving a job. Mannetje and Kromhout 1 show that beyond these well-recognized difficulties there are several more basic is...

What is the impact of automation on public sector employment? Using machine learning and natural language processing algorithms, this study estimates which occupations agencies Brazilian Federal Government are most susceptible to automation. We contribute literature by introducing Bartik Occupational Tasks (BOT), an objective method used estimate susceptibility that avoids subjective or ad hoc ...