BACKGROUND To practice occupational health in Europe, a medical doctor must qualify in occupational medicine. This requires a period of postgraduate specialist medical training lasting a minimum of four years, in conformity with European regulations, to obtain a certificate of completion of training which is then mutually recognized within the entire European Union. DISCUSSION In 2002 an Ital...

A questionnaire has been developed and disseminated in several European countries to determine common key competences required of occupational medicine specialists. The questionnaire contained 115 subjects relating to eight fields of activity of an occupational medicine physician (occupational hazards to health, assessment of disability and fitness for work, communications, research methods, ma...

The Occupational Safety and Health Management System (OSHMS) is part of the overall management system needed in order to control risks related work activities achieve a safe, comfortable productive workplace. Kediri District Office has not implemented OSHMS. This study aims analyze factors that influence level need for implementation OSHMS Office. type research uses quantitative with cross sect...

In the subset of tasks deemed occupational, which can be rather inclusive depending on the definition, multiple sources of variability combine to complicate work task analyses and occupational design approaches, but are not always considered. Focusing on physical ergonomics, three major umbrella categories of occupational variability are: 1) variability in task performance – i.e. how a person p...

The aim of the present study was to identify relations between occupational stress and occupational class in Japanese civil servants, using two occupational stress models-the Effort-Reward Imbalance (ERI) Model and the Job Demand-Control (JDC) Model. The subjects were employees of three local public organizations. We distributed self-administered questionnaires and assessed occupational stress ...

OBJECTIVE The main objective of this study was to link the Klein-Bell activities of daily living (KB) Scale to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), in order to validate the KB Scale content-wise. DESIGN A qualitative approach was used with directed content analysis. METHODS Concepts in the KB Scale items were linked to ICF categories according to est...

Although prevention strategies to assure good mental health in the workplace have become important, worker notification in studies using psychometric tests has rarely been discussed. Until now it has been difficult to prepare a large number of notifications that are tailored well for individual workers. We have developed a system to create notifications that explain the results for individual w...

The American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) developed the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process (the Framework) to categorize and organize concepts in the field of occupational therapy in a manner that would be understandable to practitioners within the field as well as to external readers. The current study investigates the degree to which occupational therapists...

BACKGROUND Current evidence about the experiences of doctors who are unwell is limited to poor quality data. AIM To investigate GPs' experiences of significant illness, and how this affects their own subsequent practice. DESIGN OF STUDY Qualitative study using interpretative phenomenological analysis to conduct and analyse semi-structured interviews with GPs who have experienced significant...