Effective interventions to reduce work-related exposures are available for many types of work-related diseases or injuries. However, knowledge of the impact of these interventions on injury or disease outcomes is scarce due to practical and methodological reasons. Study designs are considered for the evaluation of occupational health interventions on occupational disease or injury. Latency and ...

results the overall prevalence of occupational asthma was 9.7%. this rate was 13.8% in the exposed group. logistic regression analysis showed that even after adjustment for confounding factors, a significant correlation existed between the frequency of occupational asthma and exposure to the produced dust particles (p < 0.05). in addition, age, work experience, body mass index, cigarette smokin...

In modern society, traffic represents one of the basic human needs. Traffic is a daily activity, which reflected in change position people, things or messages. The goal state to establish favorable security, and therefore safety, other words, with as few negative effects possible. On hand, regulate improve road laws have been enacted. basis development participation traffic, including offenses ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the opinion of patients of an occupational diseases hospital on the quality of provision of occupational medicine services in Turkey. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 189 patients were interviewed using a 13-item survey about their jobs and workplaces. RESULTS The overall results of this study were as follows: 80.4% of the patients stated that physicians were located at...

The belt conveyor is the main transport equipments in coal field, and its controllable dirve system directly impacts on the running safety reliability and cost in coal production. Starting speed is unsmoothed in the traditional electrical drive system, which causes the belt off tracking or split and even safty accident. Therefore it is theory and practical significant to introduce a novel direc...

PURPOSE To evaluate the safety and efficacy of a new vessel-sealing device (LigaSure) for laparoscopic varicocelectomy. MATERIALS AND METHODS To evaluate the safty, after elective varicocelectomy, the internal spermatic veins (n = 8) were sealed ex vivo with a 5-mm laparoscopic Maryland-style LigaSure (LigaSure Lap), and bursting pressures were measured. To evaluate the efficacy, a retrospect...